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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... |
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... |
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. 24 |
Textual Production | George Eliot | Many early extant letters of GE
's date from her unhappy, adolescent, Evangelical period, and have a tone of self-righteousness and censoriousness of others and of herself which is not pleasant to modern readers. In... |
Textual Features | Olaudah Equiano | The book moves into vivid narrative with OE
's abduction, his mostly tolerable experiences as a slave in Africa (constantly moving on until he reached a tribe who were morally corrupted by whites), and his... |
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... |
Author summary | Celia Fiennes | CF
was a remarkable, indeed a unique, travel-writer about her own country. Travelling in the later seventeenth and the early eighteenth century, and writing the account that has come down to us in the latter... |
Textual Features | Ann Fisher | The Young Scholar's Delight, or Familiar Companion, in dialogue form, treats geography, astronomy, and other sciences and arts, as well as (in the tradition of Defoe
's Family Instructor) religion and Bible study... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Gardam | As the title suggests, Polly Flint's chief passion is for Daniel Defoe
, to whose writing she brings a passionate, intelligent naiveté and great perception. She fiercely contradicts those who suppose that Defoe lacked imagination... |
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. 1: 21ff |
Textual Production | Nadine Gordimer | NG
issued a collected volume of short stories, Friday's Footprint, whose title emblematises, through allusion to Defoe
's Robinson Crusoe, a key moment in colonial contact between different races. In fact, the footprint... |
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... |
Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | A Spy upon the Conjuror (19 March 1724; three more issues followed) is the first of EH
's several pamphlets on the deaf-mute fortune-teller Duncan Campbell
. It was advertised more than a year before... |
Reception | Eliza Haywood | For publishing it EH
was arrested, and 800 copies of her work were impounded. It is not known how long she remained in custody, but this incident seems to have headed her off from specifically... |
Reception | Eliza Haywood | Love in Excess, with its arguably six editions by 1725, has repeatedly been likened to Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe and Jonathan SwiftGulliver's Travels as bestselling English fictions before Pamela. It has never shared their status, partly... |
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