Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Marjorie Bowen | MB
recalls being influenced at an early age by her enjoyment of Tennyson
's Idylls of the King, Wilde
's Picture of Dorian Gray, the novels of Sir Walter Scott
, and Richardson |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marjorie Bowen | MB
credits British women novelists for modifying the methods of the great European novelists, noting in particular Dorothy Richardson
's perfection of the stream-of-consciousness technique. She draws a contrast between Dorothy Richardson
's Miriam and... |
Education | Marjorie Bowen | |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Henry James
's review in 1865 considered Braddon's success alongside that of Collins
, pronouncing her the founder of the sensation novel (defined as devising domestic mysteries adapted to the wants of a sternly prosaic... |
Textual Production | Frances Brooke | FB
apologised to Thomas Cadell
about her delay (caused by ill-health) in completing a life of Samuel Richardson
.Cadell, Jr Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xlix McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press. 187, 234n1 |
Textual Production | Frances Brooke | Susanna Duncombe
offered FB
permission to use (for her life of Richardson
) Duncombe's now well-known sketch of him reading aloud. McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press. 188 |
Textual Production | Frances Brooke | FB
's Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. Samuel Richardson was published in the Universal Magazine. McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press. 188-9 Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford. 276 |
Literary responses | Frances Brooke | Highly positive reviews included one from Voltaire
in France suggesting that this was the finest epistolary novel to appear in English during the decade or so since the last work of Richardson
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Frances Brooke | She thought it had been too long, with too little plot, and that the subscription method had not been to its benefit. Critic Juliet McMaster
believes that Jane Austen
had Emily Montague in mind in... |
Textual Features | Anita Brookner | AB
addresses her topic with gusto: The slashing and irreverent critics, often totally unqualified and inaccurate, now stand before us slightly scarred by the verdicts of posterity. Brookner, Anita. The Genius of the Future. Phaidon. 2 Not a historian of literature so much... |
Textual Features | Frances Burney | Evelina opens with an ode to Charles Burney
(unnamed) as Author of my Being, which sounds like an apology for having written. Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press. 37 |
Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | Edward Copeland
argues that this text, though designed to ride the wave of the new silver-fork novel, draws its influences from an earlier generation: Frances Burney
, Susan Ferrier
, and Richardson
's Sir Charles... |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Butler | Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton
, and Harriet Pigott
therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby
. Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, p. vii - viii; various pages. vii |
Intertextuality and Influence | Medora Gordon Byron | The title-page quotes Milton
's Paradise Lost (There wanted yet the master-work); the preface quotes Samuel Johnson
saying that the novelist needs to have first-hand experience of the living world, but that... |
Education | Catherine Carswell | In her unfinished autobiography, CC
remembers that while she grew up there were no novels in the house except Sir Walter Scott
's, and a small, fat, small-printed volume, bound in ornamental red and black... |
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