Browne, Frances. The Star of Attéghéi; the Vision of Schwartz; and Other Poems. Edward Moxon, 1844.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Henry Handel Richardson | The child Ethel Richardson was a great reader. She identified with male fictional characters, and cherished three books which her father gave her almost on his death-bed: The Pilgrim's Progress by Bunyan
, Robinson Crusoe... |
| Education | Frances Browne | FB
's blindness meant that she did not have a formal education, and she very early felt the want of it. |
| Education | Alice Walker | On her own the child AW
was always reading. At eight she identified in someone else's house a photograph of Booker T. Washington
—and asked, Why don't you give it to me, please? White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004. 31 |
| Education | Sara Jeannette Duncan | Writing by SJD
suggests that some of her early reading included Sterne
and Defoe
. She also had access to Blackwood's and the Cornhill Magazine, and romantic novels by Mary Cecil Hay
and Mary Jane Holmes
. Fowler, Marian. Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan. Anansi, 1983. 24 |
| Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
| Education | Mary Anne Barker | Mary Anne's education consisted largely of the cosmopolitan polishing of the colonial ruling class; she felt later that she had had to manage her own learning without being taught. Her favourite book was Defoe
's... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Wesley | SW
's father, the Rev. Samuel Annesley
(1620-96), was an eminent as well as a philoprogenitive London dissenter. During the interregnum he had been a presbyterian chaplain in the parliamentary navy. He then became rector... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | The book deals with the usual topics of travel writing: history, tradition, peasant life, and scenery, with a lucid exposition of the politics of the region. Gerard, Emily. The Land Beyond the Forest. W. Blackwood and Sons, 1888. 1: 21ff |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Muriel Spark | Robinson is the name both of the island and of one of its two long-term occupants, a recluse who has bought the island and exiled himself there out of disillusionment with human society. Behind this... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Harriet Burney | The Shipwreck presents (with memories of William ShakespeareThe Tempest as well as Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe) Sabor, Peter. “Part of an Englishwoman’s Constitution: Sarah Harriet Burney and Shakespeare”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference, 12 oct. 2018. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Beatrice Harraden | The child protagonist of Things Will Take a Turn, Rose (always called either Childie or Rosebud), has a grandfather who runs an unprofitable second-hand bookshop. She has read a lot and has (as well... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | One reviewer noted ASB
's fascination with the symbolic world of the fairy tale, the dream and the artist's vision shape both the style and the content. Rankin, Bill. “Byatt’s Stories Live Up to her High Standards”. Edmonton Journal, p. F7. F7 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Carleton | The bigamy scandal generated twenty-six topical publications. It provoked such works as a play by either Thomas Parker
or John Holden
, 1664. Later MC
's death by hanging made her an ideal subject for... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Watts | After the pasted-in pages and a section devoted to Tasso
, the volume moves to a poem modelled on the tabular lists of good and evil in his life that are kept by Defoe
's... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Chandler | Her poem played its part in the establishment of Bath as a resort which was respected and fashionable, on both medical and cultural grounds. When James Leake
published a revised edition of A Tour of... |
Timeline
Spring to autumn 1665
The Great Plague (probably bubonic plague or pasteurella pestis) raged in London. Londoners' experience is well-known from the accounts of Samuel Pepys
and Daniel Defoe
; in some other parts of Britain 1666 was plague year.
13 April 1685
Two Scotswomen, Margaret Lachlane
aged sixty-three and Margaret Wilson
aged around twenty-five, were sentenced to execution by drowning for being Covenanters
: they were tied to stakes in Wigtown Bay while the tide came in.
January 1697
Daniel Defoe
proposed in his early publication An Essay upon Projects (advertised for sale this month) the founding of an academy for women.
1698
On the death of publisher Richard Baldwin
from a slow consumption, his widow, Abigail
, took over the business in name; she had in fact been running it for several years.
1 December 1702
Daniel Defoe
's The Shortest Way with the Dissenters was anonymously published.
3 November 1703
Mary Raby was executed at Tyburn for crimes against property.
19 February 1704
Daniel Defoe
issued the first number of his long-running, one-man periodical, A Review of the State of the British Nation,, which began under the title A Weekly Review of the Affairs of France.
March 1705
Daniel Defoe
published The Consolidator: an ingenious allegorickRelation or satiricalscience fiction about a trip to the moon on a flying machine whose 513 feathers coincide with the number of MPs in Parliament
.
8 September 1705
On this day, according to Defoe
's True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal (published next year), the phantom of a young woman who had just died paid a call on a friend.
2 February 1709
Sailor Alexander Selkirk
was rescued after surviving more than four years as a castway on Juan Fernandez island.
11 June 1713
Daniel Defoe
issued the last number of his periodical, A Review.
31 March 1715
Daniel Defoe
published The Family Instructor, which explores in fictionaldialogue form religious and educational issues arising in families.
18 September 1718
The thrice-weeklyWhite-hall [sic] Evening-Post began publishing, editing by Daniel Defoe
; it ran until 10 April 1739, after which its title was used, with variations, for other papers.
25 April 1719
Daniel Defoe
anonymously published The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a novel with elements of spiritual autobiography.
28 November 1720
At a trial in Spanish Town, Jamaica, Anne Bonny
and Mary Read
were found guilty of piracy and sentenced to hang. However, after each claimed that she was pregnant, both were spared the death penalty.
Texts
Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year. Editor Landa, Louis, Oxford University Press, 1969.
Defoe, Daniel. Essay Upon Projects. Printed by R. R. for Tho. Cockerill, 1697.
Defoe, Daniel. “Introduction”. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe, edited by Michael F. Shugrue, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968, p. v - xxvi.
Defoe, Daniel. “Introduction”. Robinson Crusoe, edited by John J. Richetti, Penguin, 2001, p. ix - xxxiv.
Defoe, Daniel. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe. Editor Shugrue, Michael F., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
Defoe, Daniel. The Earlier Life and Chief Earlier Works of Daniel Defoe. Editor Morley, Henry, George Routledge, 1889.