Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Atkins | She gives her chapters epigraphs, many of them eighteenth-century: the Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, quoted in French on the title-page and to open volume three; Molière
and Pope
's Rape of the Lock... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Joanna Cannan | Not only class, but class and national ideology is under the microscope here. The idea of Englishness is much appealed to. Price admonishes Lisa (who prattles freely of art and Aristotle
and Baudelaire
, though... |
Publishing | Georgiana Chatterton | Many of GC
's last works were privately printed. According to the original Dictionary of National Biography, she first used this means of publication for Quagmire Ahead, 1864, then for A Plea for... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Fielding | The Cry concerns itself with burning issues for women, particularly those of intellectual conformity and of vulnerability to slander. Its authors show off their huge reading both ancient and modern, and coin new words with... |
Education | Elizabeth Inchbald | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | The Destiny of Humanity discusses works by Aristotle
, Plato
, Kant
, William Whewell
, and Frederick Faber
. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 146-7 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Marghanita Laski | To examine, once again, the implications of rigid and static class boundaries, ML
creates a mock utopia based on caste. The action begins in 1945 on an island somewhere in the East, where a... |
Education | Anne Marsh | AM
continued her studies into adult life, writing to her son in May 1844, I love Mathematics so much. There is something so beautiful to my mind in perfect demonstration but knowledge of any sort... |
Education | Alice Meynell | In the summer of 1852 Elizabeth and Alice Thompson (later AM
) began their education under their father's instruction. Recording her daughters' lessons, Christiana Thompson writes, Dear little angels do their writing . .... |
Education | Frances Reynolds | |
Textual Features | Laura Riding | |
Education | Joan Riley | As a young child in Jamaica, JR
says she found escape from the harsh realities of her life on the shelves of the local library. Reading whatever was available, she ranged from Shakespeare
to... |
Literary responses | Sappho | Sappho was praised by many of the great names in the classical world: Socrates
, Lucian
, Plutarch
, Aristotle
(who, however, wrote, the Mytileans honored Sappho even though she was a woman), Sappho, and Andrew R. Burn. Lyrics in the Original Greek. Translator Barnstone, Willis, New York University Press. 167 |
Textual Production | Dorothy L. Sayers | Reviews which DLS
wrote for the Sunday Times during the 1930s allowed her to comment on most of her fellow crime-writers, notably Margery Allingham
and Agatha Christie
. She provided introductions for volumes of short... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Gertrude Stein | The narrator wants to present a history of The old people in a new world, the new people made out of the old, Stein, Gertrude et al. The Making of Americans. Dalkey Archive Press. 3 |
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