Cleopatra

Standard Name: Cleopatra

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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...
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. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Mary Butts
Heinemann released MB 's second historical novel, Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
240
Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
NM published with HeinemannCleopatra 's People, another book about Africa.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1973
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora.
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 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.
2: 179
In the dialogues she...
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.
47
with allusions to the...
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, p. vii - xli.
xl
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.
xxiii
Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama, 1890-1990. Cambridge University Press.
23
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research.
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.
Pearson, Susanna. The Medallion. G. G. and J. Robinson.
1: 7-8
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...

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