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Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | Browne had made his Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents [sic] and commonly presumed truths (addressed not to ordinary, mis-informed people but to men of learning) almost an encyclopaedia of seventeenth-century misconceptions... |
Occupation | Marie Corelli | Her guardianship of Shakespeare
's memory extended to public opposition of the Baconian theory that emerged in the early twentieth century: the belief that Shakespeare was not the author of the works attributed to him... |
Textual Production | Agnes Mary Clerke | While many of her articles were printed in the Edinburgh Review, she also contributed to a range of other periodicals. And while she focused her writings primarily on astronomy, she by no means neglected... |
Textual Production | Medora Gordon Byron | It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press
, with a quotation from Francis Bacon
on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare
, Swift
, Prior
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, Edward Young |
Textual Production | John Buchan | JB
began young: he published his first work, a hymn, in 1887, at the age of eleven. While at university he published poetry, history, a historical novel, and short stories, and he also edited Francis Bacon |
Textual Features | Caroline Blackwood | Critic Val Warner
called CB
a unique voice in twentieth-century British fiction. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 65: 38 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Frances Billington | Each chapter reflects on a single yet complex aspect of female life in India, from a woman's birth to her death. Each includes an epigraph to introduce its themes and issues, some from Indian cultural... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Bacon | AB
bore her younger son, Francis
, who became an influential scientist, writer, and thinker, as well as Lord Chancellor of England, and Viscount St Albans. The early-twentieth-century Baconian movement (a group of scholars and... |
Wealth and Poverty | Anne Bacon | |
Education | Sarah Austin | During the five years of their engagement, John Austin decided that Sarah was in need of a rigorous intellectual education in accordance with his religious, political, and philosophical bent of mind. Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton. 22 |
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