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Catherine II Empress of Russia
Standard Name: Catherine II,, Empress of Russia
Used Form: Catherine the Great
Used Form: Tsarina Catherine
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Mary Walker | Lady Frances, newly rich, sees herself as holding her fortune in trust for her young nephew and for society as a whole: She considered society is manifestly maintained by a circulation of kindness. |
| Leisure and Society | Violet Trefusis | With financial assistance from her lover and mother, VT
became especially extravagant while living in this place, where she adopted the values of the world she had said she despised. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 258 |
| Literary responses | Camilla Crosland | The Athenæum deemed that this book could be placed safely in the hands of young women. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1375 (1854): 278 |
| Textual Features | Mary Hays | Though occasionally sketchy (it gives Elizabeth Elstob
, for instance, four lines), this is a work of real research, from a consistently feminist point of view. MH
investigates the question of women in power with... |
| Textual Features | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
produces a treatise rather than a polemic, using a studied moderation of tone. She deploys an artful range of styles and her material is drawn from biology, history, sociology, economics, and in a large... |
| Textual Production | Jane Porter | JP
's first purpose included drawing a distinction between a brave patriot and a military plunderer. Porter, Jane. Thaddeus of Warsaw. T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803, 4 vols. v |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Justice | EJ
published by subscription at YorkA Voyage to Russia, Describing the Laws, Manners and Customs of that Great Empire, as governed, at this present, by that Excellent Princess, the Czarina (Catherine the Great). OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| 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 | Elizabeth Justice | She writes admiringly of the Tsarina Catherine
(whose clothes worn at the opera she describes in great detail), but less so about the Russian diet, climate, manners, and clothing in general. Justice, Elizabeth. A Voyage to Russia. Thomas Gent, 1739. 13, 15-22 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Seymour Montague | The third epistle performs the conventional act of praising historical women: the monarchs Elizabeth I
and Catherine the Great
of Russia for their exercise of power, the French scholar Anne Dacier
, and eleven British... |
Timeline
June 1762: Catherine the Great came to power in Russia...
National or international item
June 1762
Catherine the Great
came to power in Russia in a skilfully managed coup.
Levitt, Marcus C. “An Antidote to Nervous Juice: Catherine the Great’s Debate with Chappe d’Auteroche over Russian Culture”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 49-63. 51
June 1770: Russia (under Catherine the Great) demonstrated...
National or international item
June 1770
Russia (under Catherine the Great
) demonstrated its new power by crushing Turkey in a naval victory.
Levitt, Marcus C. “An Antidote to Nervous Juice: Catherine the Great’s Debate with Chappe d’Auteroche over Russian Culture”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 49-63. 58
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