Thaddeus, Janice. “Mary Delany, Model to the Age”. History, Gender & Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Beth Fowkes Tobin, University of Georgia Press, pp. 113-40.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | May Kendall | |
| Textual Production | Mary Delany | A few of MD
's letters had already reached print: those to Swift
in 1766 and those to Frances Hamilton in 1820. Lady Llanover
was an extremely meticulous editor, |
| Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | ES
's I Live under a Black Sun appeared: generally called a novel, it relates a modern version of some events in the life of Jonathan Swift
, and has something of an idiosyncratic biography... |
| Textual Production | Mary Barber | Somebody signing Swift
's name, possibly MB
herself, addressed to Queen Caroline
a letter fulsomely praising Barber's writings and requesting patronage. The name of Matthew Pilkington
, though not yet put forward, seems a natural... |
| Textual Production | Lucie Duff Gordon | LDG
made a foray into fiction with her translation of Léon de Wailly
's Stella
and Vanessa, a French novel based on Jonathan Swift
's life. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Laetitia Pilkington | |
| Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
's lampoon on Swift
appeared as an anonymous folio, The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing-Room. A Poem. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press. 273-6 |
| Textual Production | Lucie Duff Gordon | LDG
was not mistaken in her conviction that the novel, which features the singular and unexplained relations of Swift
with the two distinguished and charming women whom it was his lot and his pleasure to... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Priscilla Wakefield | Despite the title, the travel in this sequel or companion to The Juvenile Travellers confines itself to the British Isles, where one of the most pressing topics of local interest is association with writers... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Judith Sargent Murray | She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism... |
| Travel | Mary Barber | MB
arrived in London from Dublin on a money-making venture: she had poems by Swift
to publish. McLaverty, James. “Lawton Gilliver: Pope’s Bookseller”. Studies in Bibliography, Vol. 32 , pp. 101-24. 119 |
| Travel | Frances Sheridan | They also loved to spend time at the estate of Quilca in Co. Cavan, a family property immortalised in poems by Jonathan Swift
, who had stayed there a generation previously with FS
's father-in-law. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, pp. 13-35. 15-16 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Mary Barber | MB
finally gained a secure income by a subscription edition of Swift
's Polite Conversation, whose manuscript he had given her for this end. Ehrenpreis, Irvin. Swift: the Man, his Works, and the Age. Harvard University Press. 3: 836 |
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