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| 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 | Cassandra Cooke | In a preface CC
says she found the incident that forms the centre of this novel in The Christian Life by Dr John Scott
(that is The Christian Life, from its beginning to its consummation... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Writing to Mary Russell Mitford
of her hope that they might meet, HM
acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. qtd. in L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett, 1882, 2 vols. 1: 263-4 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margery Allingham | These gripping stories do not feature Albert Campion. Each is set in a small rural community where a culture of voracious gossip threatens the reputation and happiness of somewhat unconventional young women. In each the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Nightingale | In this report FN
explains how formerly nurses were women who were too old, too weak, too drunken, too dirty, too stolid, or too bad to do anything else. qtd. in Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. University of Chicago Press, 1988. 174, 242n25 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Richardson | In this book Richardson's heroine Miriam, now eighteen years old, has returned from Germany and is a resident teacher at Wordsworth House, a school in fictional Banbury Park, North London, run by the Perne... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Aubin | PA
's preface attacks the abominable Writings of the freethinker John Toland qtd. in Welham, Debbie. “The Political Afterlife of Resentment in Penelope Aubins The Life and Amorous Adventures of Lucinda (1721)”. Womens Writing, Vol. 20 , No. 1, 2013, pp. 49-63. 52 qtd. in Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Aubin | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Fanshawe | Memorials included just fifteen of her writings, both prose and verse. It added several poems to her known oeuvre. Epistle on the Subjects of Botany, containing a tale and much good advice welcomes the opening... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Beatrix Potter | The Tale of Pigling Bland (written, significantly, in the days of BP
's own courtship) is a love-story in whose happy ending Pigling and his beloved Pig-wig go dancing off hand-in-hand Over the hills and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Barker | This and JB
's next novel are both more episodic than Love Intrigues. In To the Reader she defends her own patchwork method (so different from the extended narrative method which she associates, though... |
| 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, 2 vols. 1: 21ff |
| Leisure and Society | Mary Martha Sherwood | Her new religion, rigorous as it was, did not forbid fiction. Books were at a premium in India, and MMS
was delighted at encountering Defoe
's Robinson Crusoe and Richardson
. A new book, or... |
| Literary responses | Caroline Leakey | Geraldine Jewsbury
's review in the Athenæum was extremely positive. She praised the book as written with great force and earnestness, saying that even the hardened novel readers and stony-hearted critics at the Athenæumhave... |
| Literary responses | Harriet Corp | The Critical Review declined to comment on this book or to differentiate it from other religious novels. The Eclectic Review of November 1805, too, found similarities with other recent works, but dignified Interesting Conversations by... |
Timeline
27 January 1722: Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Fortunes...
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27 January 1722
Daniel Defoe
anonymously published The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, his first fictional autobiography of a criminal woman.
Moore, John Robert. A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe. Indiana University Press, 1960.
180-1
20 February 1722: Daniel Defoe published Religious Courtship...
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20 February 1722
Daniel Defoe
published Religious Courtship . . ., a comprehensive tract on marriage from a religious viewpoint.
Moore, John Robert. A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe. Indiana University Press, 1960.
181-2
17 March 1722: Daniel Defoe published A Journal of the Plague...
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17 March 1722
Daniel Defoe
published A Journal of the Plague Year (set during the plague which began in April 1665).
Moore, John Robert. A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe. Indiana University Press, 1960.
182
29 February 1724: Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Fortunate...
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29 February 1724
Daniel Defoe
anonymously published The Fortunate Mistress, or . . . Lady Roxana, his second fictional autobiography of a woman living on her wits.
Moore, John Robert. A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe. Indiana University Press, 1960.
185
By 8 June 1725: The criminal Jonathan Wild was hanged: Daniel...
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By 8 June 1725
The criminal Jonathan Wild
was hanged: Daniel Defoe
wrote a hasty account of his life, and eighteen years later Henry Fielding
made him a mock-heroic over-reacher.
Defoe, Daniel. “Introduction”. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe, edited by Michael F. Shugrue, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968, p. v - xxvi.
xxii
McDowell, Paula. “Narrative Authority, Critical Complicity: The Case of Jonathan WildStudies in the Novel, Vol.
30
, No. 2, 1 June 1998– 2025, pp. 211-31. 225
The date is that of Defoe's catchpenny biography.
By 20 November 1725 : Daniel Defoe published the first volume of...
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By 20 November 1725
Daniel Defoe
published the first volume of his business manual The Complete English Tradesman; a second volume followed the next year.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
1735: Some Considerations upon Streetwalkers, while...
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1735
Some Considerations upon Streetwalkers, while following its predecessors in blaming prostitutes for lewdness and depravity, added the new idea that women were driven to prostitution out of economic need.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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Late 1739: There was published, bearing the date of...
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Late 1739
There was published, bearing the date of 1740, The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies
, commonly call'd Mother Ross. Taken from her own mouth, the story of a woman cross-dressing to be a soldier.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Easton, Fraser. “Plebeianizing the Female Soldier”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, St John’s, Newfoundland, 15 Oct. 2010.
By October 1762: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Émile, a novel of...
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By October 1762
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
's Émile, a novel of education published in the earlier part of this year in French, had its first English translation as Emilius and Sophia.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
14 (1763): 250-70
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.
Defoe, Daniel. “Introduction”. Robinson Crusoe, edited by John J. Richetti, Penguin, 2001, p. ix - xxxiv.
xxii
Goodman, Dena. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters. Cornell University Press, 2009.
113
1768: Arthur Young published the first of his surveys...
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1768
Arthur Young
published the first of his surveys of the state of the British countryside: A Six Weeks' Tour through the Southern Counties of England and Wales
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
387
1796: Children's writer Lucy Peacock published...
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1796
Children's writer Lucy Peacock
published Ambrose and Eleanor. Or, The Adventures of Two Children Deserted on an Uninhabited Island, translated and adapted from Ducray-Duménil
's Fanfan et Lolotte, 1788 (sometimes called Lolotte et Fanfan).
Rønning, Anne Birgitte. “Originality in Adaptation: Lucy Peacock’s Ambrose and Eleanor”. The Female Spectator, Vol.
16
, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2012, p. 6. Texts
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