Fowler, Marian. Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan. Anansi, 1983.
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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 | Maria Riddell | The future MR
was in all probability privately educated. At sixteen she wrote a poem to commemorate the pleasure of reading with a friend the works of Milton
, Pope
, Spenser
, Shakespeare
... |
Education | Melesina Trench | Her successive years with different guardians account for the apparent inconsistency in her comments about her education. In maturity she named her favourite youthful reading as Shakespeare
, Molière
, and Sterne
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Elinor Glyn | After Elinor Sutherland (later EG
) turned fourteen she no longer had a governess. Eager for intellectual stimulation, she took it upon herself to read everything in her stepfather
's book collection, which had recently... |
Education | Sarah Orne Jewett | She read extensively as a child, and came early to authors as diverse as Jane Austen
, George Eliot
, Margaret Oliphant
, Henry Fielding
, Laurence Sterne
, Elizabeth Gaskell
and Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Mary Walker | Foscolo read Petrarch
and Sterne
together with Hamilton's daughter Sophia. Then he seduced her, and went back to Italy leaving her pregnant. The baby was called Mary after her grandmother, and stayed with Lady Mary... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Strutt | The paintings he exhibited at the Royal Academy
were mostly landscapes; it may not be fanciful to see the influence of his marriage in the two titles he showed (for the first time) in 1819:... |
Fictionalization | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | EKM
's representation by her husband's second wife as a pathetic victim, idealistic but foolish and untalented, paved the way for Virginia Woolf
's portrait. Woolf seized on details given by Anne Mathews: the best... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson | EGF
had met novelist Laurence Sterne
and botanist-physician John Fothergill
in London. Among her large circle of friends at home, other writers were prominent. She knew the poet Nathaniel Evans
and the physician and educator... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | A preface (in the first volume) quotes the words of Samuel Johnson
(with apology for applying them to so trifling a matter as novel-writing) about working at his dictionary amid grief and illness, feeling cut... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Latter | ML
here accords honorific citation to Dryden
and Pope
, Latter, Mary. Pro & Con. T. Lowndes, 1771. 31-2 Latter, Mary. Pro & Con. T. Lowndes, 1771. vii, 14 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amelia B. Edwards | Barbara Churchill, a clever, shy, ugly, awkward child, Athenæum. J. Lection. 1888 (1864): 15 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | Here SHR
makes a preface out of her unwillingness to write a preface: this concept is Sterne
an, and so is the abrupt opening. I can't for my life see the necessity of it, said... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alethea Lewis | Her first chapter explicitly addresses critics, and the authorial voice is often in dialogue with imagined readers—who are given a kind of life as typical young eligibles: the lovely Florinda and her favoured swain. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | The Inquisitor is a character, again Sterne
an, who wanders about doing good. He has a wife and two daughters. His wish to be invisible is made when he is asked for money by someone... |