Madeleine Angélique Poisson de Gomez

Standard Name: Gomez, Madeleine Angélique Poisson de
Used Form: Madeleine Angelique Poisson de Gomez

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Eliza Haywood
Bibliographer Patrick Spedding called EH 's translation close and accurate apart from a consistent heightening of style, stepping up the emotional voltage.
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Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
162
Aleksondra Hultquist , however, argued that Haywood's alterations to her source are...
Occupation Eliza Haywood
In 1730 she acted in Hatchett's The Rival Father and perhaps as Mrs Novel (a character apparently based on herself) in Fielding's The Author's Farce. On 2 March 1732 she played in The Blazing...
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
EH anonymously published the first volume of La Belle Assemblée: or, The Adventures of Six Days, translated from Les Journées amusantes, a novel or collection of novels by Mme de Gomez .
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
169
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
179
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
The original was written in French by Madeleine Angélique Poisson de Gomez , whom EH had translated from already. A re-issue the next year gave it the sub-title The Sequel to La Belle Assemblée and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ann Thicknesse
Richard Graves may have been disappointed, for the introduction and early lives are substantially the same as in the 1778 version which he had already read (though Hester Mulso Chapone has been added to the...

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Texts

Gomez, Madeleine Angélique Poisson de. L’Entretien des Beaux Esprits. Translator Haywood, Eliza, F. Cogan and J. Nourse, 1734, 2 vols.
Gomez, Madeleine Angélique Poisson de. La Belle Assemblée. Translator Haywood, Eliza, D. Browne, Jr., and S. Chapman, 1724.