Pearson, Susanna. The Medallion. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794, 3 vols.
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Cleopatra
Standard Name: Cleopatra
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | Some of her contributions are related (sometimes ironically or satirically related) to women's issues and the New Woman: Great Marriage Insurance Scheme, How Women Can Easily Make Provision for their Old Age... |
| Literary Setting | Sarah Pearson | An introductory address To the Reviewers urges them (with the trembling deemed appropriate for a woman writer) not to read the book in the morning but in the period of good humour after dinner. |
| Performance of text | George Bernard Shaw | Mrs Patrick Campbell
's Company
first performed GBS
's history play Caesar
and Cleopatra, at the Theatre Royal
in Newcastle upon Tyne. Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1998. xxiii Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama, 1890-1990. Cambridge University Press, 1992. 23 Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982. |
| Publishing | Sarah Fielding | SF
published by subscription The Lives of Cleopatra
and Octavia, printed by Samuel Richardson
as by the Author of David Simple. Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p. vii - xli. xl |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
seems to have influenced this work as a whole, in persuading Lyttelton
to reshape it into dialogue from the epistolary form (letters from the dead to the living). Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923, 2 vols. 2: 179 |
| Textual Features | Dorothy Wellesley | The method by which this poem is made is reflected also in Snakes, which presents these ancient, inscrutable, mythological creatures as Lords of the underworld going on their track, Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan, 1936. 47 |
| Textual Production | Naomi Mitchison | NM
published with HeinemannCleopatra
's People, another book about Africa. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987. 1973 Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora, 1992. 159, 183 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3670 (30 June 1972): 737 |
| Textual Production | Mary Butts | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Brownell Jameson | Her subjects reach back to the semi-legendary such as Semiramis
and Cleopatra
. ABJ
includes from England Queen Elizabeth
and Queen Anne
and from Europe Maria Theresa
and Catherine the Great
. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Felicia Hemans | The volume provides lavish notes to explain its sometimes quite obscure historical figures and settings, and cites a wide range of authors including Plutarch
, Shakespeare
, Milton
, and Germaine de Staël
. FH |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rachel Hunter | A preface on the theory of fiction, written in the third person, discusses the novel's moral aims. RH
expresses the hope that ghosts, castles, and caverns have had their day, and (as in the preface... |
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