Mary, Countess Cowper,. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray.
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Occupation | Mary, Countess Cowper | She says she never solicited for a place, though she wrote to the Princess on the death of Queen Anne. Mary, Countess Cowper,. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray. 2 |
Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | It was dated 1851. Her biographer R. K. Webb
claims that the bulk of the book is Atkinson
's, with promptings from Harriet Martineau
, although it certainly also includes substantial letters from her. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Delarivier Manley | The full title is Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean. DM
must surely have intended allusion to Francis Bacon |
Intertextuality and Influence | Bathsua Makin | Makin proposes a curriculum which blends tradition with innovation. In arguing that it is more important to know things, than to get words and that languages (the staple of current male education) are subservient to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | The title-page quotes from Sir Francis Bacon
, Virgil
, and Sir Roger L'Estrange
. A preface (written in the third person as he) argues that physiognomy has something in it but deplores the... |
Dedications | Margaret Legge | The book is dedicated To My Friend, with a quotation about friendship from Francis Bacon
. Legge, Margaret. The Price of Stephen Bonyng. Alston Rivers. prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Lawless | The title-page adapts a remark of Francis Bacon
about the exchange of thoughts with friends. EL
's own subtitle stresses that her emphasis here will be on ideas, or statements of personal philosophy, rather than... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christian Isobel Johnstone | The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon
(Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones
(Read and you will know). Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Diversions of Hollycot. Oliver and Boyd. title-page |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes Francis Bacon
and Joseph Addison
. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press. 68 |
Education | Dora Greenwell | Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke. 73 |
Textual Features | Sarah Green | SG
's preface puts her cards on the table as a political and social conservative. It says Reform, which seems now to be the present order of the day, Green, Sarah. The Reformist!!! A Serio-Comic Political Novel. Minerva Press for A. K. Newman and Co. 1: i |
Residence | Rumer Godden | Though she still found it hard to write in the country, RG
called this the happiest house we have had. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan. 170 |
Textual Features | Frances, Lady Norton | The preliminary pages feature a poem written by Grace aged eleven: 16 lines in couplets, expressing the sentiment that there is no true happiness for mortals on earth, but only in heaven. Grace, Lady Gethin,. Misery’s Virtues Whetstone. Editor Frances, Lady Norton, Printed by D. Edwards for the author. A3r |
Textual Production | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
published a biographical study: Golden Lads: A Study of Anthony Bacon
, Francis
and Their Friends (whose title comes from the dirge for Fedele in Shakespeare
's Cymbeline). Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus. 389 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3835 (12 September 1975): 1014 |
Textual Production | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
published The Winding Stair, a biography of Sir Francis Bacon
(about whom she had already written the previous year in Golden Lads). TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3880 (23 July 1976): 914 “Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com. Kelly, Richard. Daphne du Maurier. Twayne. 150 Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus. 391 |
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