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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Maria Riddell | Burns
returned the loan of MR
's commonplace-book, which he had read, he said, with much pleasure, MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press. 52 |
Textual Production | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | CMS
's first novel, A New-England Tale; or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners, was licensed: it appeared anonymously that year, with a title-page stanza from Robert Burns
, dedicated to Maria Edgeworth
. Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. A New-England Tale. Bliss and White. prelims Damon-Bach, Lucinda L., and Victoria Clements, editors. “Editorial Materials”. Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives, Northeastern University Press, p. various pages. xxxv |
Literary responses | Dora Sigerson | A central figure in both Irish and English literary circles as well as in Irish politics, DS
sought, through writing ballads, to recuperate the lost tradition of Irish balladry and folklore while simultaneously addressing the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare
, Milton
, Pope
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, William Mason
, John Langhorne
, Burns
, Erasmus Darwin
, Edward Young |
Textual Features | Ali Smith | The arborist re-reads Oliver Twist alongside their partner's lectures and urges the partner to consider discussing the musical form of the novel (a request accommodated, as the academic threads it in alongside Auld Lang Syne... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | The title-page quotes Burns
and Scott
. The preface remarks that books based on female impressions of national manners and moral character have succeeded in the past. Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Sketches of the Present Manners, Customs, and Scenery of Scotland. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. prelims iv |
Textual Production | Lesley Storm | LS
returned to her Scottish roots in her historical-biographical play Three Goose Quills and a Knife, a piece that dramatises the adult life of Robert Burns
from his twenties to his death at the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emma Tennant | ET
's family tree can be traced back to a James Tennant
who was a friend of Robert Burns
. Their modern wealth, however, came from the manufacture of bleach during the Victorian era. |
Education | Annie Tinsley | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sophie Veitch | This well-characterized and engaging novel puts forward the idea that passion is necessary although dangerous if uncontrolled: an idea anticipating Veitch's later sensation novel The Dean's Daughter. The story is set at a town... |
Textual Production | Sophie Veitch | With Duncan Moray, Farmer (a three-volume novel published both at London and at Paisley in Scotland in early 1890), OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. 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. The early date comes from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. |
Leisure and Society | Queen Victoria | Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson
, Sir Walter Scott
, George Eliot
(whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin. 116 |
Textual Production | Ethel Lilian Voynich | These poems, wrote Voynich, were immortal lyrics hidden away from Western Europe in a minor Slavonic idiom between Russian, Servian, and Polish. She called Shevenko the Robert Burns
of his own region, TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 517 (7 December 1911): 509 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Doreen Wallace | DW
was proud of her forebears, who included not only the Scottish national hero William Wallace
but also Frances Dunlop
(friend of Robert Burns
and patron of the labouring-class poet Janet Little
— Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press. xxiii |
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