O’Keeffe, Adelaide. Llewellin. Cawthorn, 1799, 3 vols.
2: 35-6
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Literary Setting | Grace Aguilar | The Days of Bruce is a melodrama about Scotland's great deliverer, Robert Bruce
. It traces the fate of fourteenth-century Scotland from its impotent rage that the tyrant Edward
[should] exult in the possession... |
Literary Setting | Jane West | JW
's preface invokes Shakespeare
, Virgil
, Homer
, and Sir Walter Scott
(she later adds Thomas Percy
) as more acceptable exemplars for romance than either the French romances (implicitly those of Madeleine de Scudéry |
Publishing | Lucy Toulmin Smith | LTS
seems to have been an infrequent contributor to periodicals. In January 1892 she published a paper in the English Historical Review entitled English Popular Preaching in the Fourteenth Century. In the article she... |
Textual Features | Adelaide O'Keeffe | The novel is apparently titled not from Llewellin, Prince of Cambria O’Keeffe, Adelaide. Llewellin. Cawthorn, 1799, 3 vols. 2: 35-6 |
Textual Features | Adelaide O'Keeffe | AOK
sets the personal story of her narrator into a context of fictionalised history (featuring the struggles of Scotland as well as Wales to resist English dominance). She even makes the fate of her protagonist... |
Textual Features | Anna Maria Mackenzie | Her dedication to the Princess of Wales mentions, in capitals, the late HAPPY EVENT of her marriage (ill-starred, as it turned out) to the future George IV
, which had taken place earlier in the... |
Textual Features | Adelaide O'Keeffe | The narrator for most of the story is Alfred Gaveston, son of the actual Piers Gaveston
who is notorious in history as the favourite of Edward II
. (Piers Gaveston in fact had one or... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland | Elizabeth Cary Falkland
almost certainly composed a remarkable work whose preface in its later folio printing is dated this day, on the life of Edward II
: a historical parable alluding to contemporary politics. The... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland | During the long-running Exclusion Crisis, The History of Edward II, now established as by Elizabeth Cary Falkland
, was published in two versions, one in folio and one in octavo, the former as by... |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | In this extremely well-populated series, this first Plantagenet led a long procession. Its followers were two novels in 1977, The Revolt of the Eaglets, and The Heart of the Lion (about Richard Coeur de Lion |
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