Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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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
. |
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 |
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
... |
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:... |
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... |
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 | Willa Muir | WM
heads her essay with a quotation from Laurence Sterne
's Tristram Shandy: Methinks, brother, replied my father, you might, at least, know so much as the right end of a woman from the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Bennett | In the central plot a number of lives are ruined by the fact that a generation ago an upper-class rake, James Neville, has fathered various children by different women, most of them illegitimate, who have... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phebe Gibbes | In addition to its over-riding themes of colonialism and the marriage market, this novel, set in early British Calcutta (and incorporating a good deal of travel book material), is much concerned with literature and with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances O'Neill | The volume includes poems of natural description, of meditation, and of political comment. FON
expresses delight at the election victory on 9 August 1802 (in John Wilkes's old constituency of Middlesex) of Sir Francis Burdett |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Bonhote | The hero of this episodic novel, a happily married curate with three children to bring up on £80 a year, and repining on their behalf at his poverty, takes Sentimental Rambles qtd. in Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 185 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Thomas | The quotations that head her chapters range through more than a dozen well-known male names from Shakespeare
through Racine
in French, Prior
and Pope
to Sterne
and Burke
, plus a couple of unidentified women.... |
Timeline
1532-early 1552: These years saw the gradual appearance of...
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1532-early 1552
These years saw the gradual appearance of the work of scurrilous, obscene, and philosophical satire generally known in English as Gargantua and Pantagruel, by François Rabelais
(1483?-?9 April 1553).
Rabelais, François. The Complete Works of François Rabelais. Translator Frame, Donald M., University of California Press, 1991.
xxvii, xxviii, xxix-xxx, xxxii
1739: Sir Richard Manningham, fashionable man-midwife...
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1739
Sir Richard Manningham
, fashionable man-midwife or obstetrician, opened England's first lying-in infirmary or medical centre reserved for childbirth, in a house next-door to his own in Jermyn Street, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Last week of December 1759: Laurence Sterne published the first two volumes...
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Last week of December 1759
Laurence Sterne
published the first two volumes of his first novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy.
Battestin, Martin C., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 39. Vol. 2 vols., Gale Research, 1985.
477
22 May 1760: Laurence Sterne published Sermons of Mr....
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22 May 1760
Laurence Sterne
published Sermons of Mr. Yorick.
Battestin, Martin C., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 39. Vol. 2 vols., Gale Research, 1985.
477
30 January 1767: Laurence Sterne published the ninth and final...
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30 January 1767
Laurence Sterne
published the ninth and final volume of his novel Tristram Shandy, which had begun in December 1759.
Sterne, Laurence. Tristram Shandy. Ann Ward; R. and J. Dodsley; T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, Dec. 1759–Jan. 1767, 9 vols.
9: title-page
27 February 1768: A month before he died, Laurence Sterne published...
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27 February 1768
A month before he died, Laurence Sterne
published the work which is generally classed as his second novel (also an episodic travel book), A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy.
Battestin, Martin C., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 39. Vol. 2 vols., Gale Research, 1985.
480
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
27 February 2009
By September 1782: The Letters of the black Londoner Ignatius...
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By September 1782
The Letters of the black Londoner Ignatius Sancho
were published two years after the author's death.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
52 (1782): 437
Carey, Brycchan. “’The extraordinary Negro’: Ignatius Sancho, Joseph Jekyll, and the Problem of Biography”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
26
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 1-14. 1
Carey, Brycchan. “’The extraordinary Negro’: Ignatius Sancho, Joseph Jekyll, and the Problem of Biography”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
26
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 1-14. 1, 10
August 1813: The Critical Review published its first welcome...
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August 1813
The Critical Review published its first welcome to Eaton Stannard Barrett
's famous parody of sentimental novels, The Heroine, or Adventures of the Fair Romance Reader.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 4 (1813): 223, 623-9
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
February 2007: Social anthropologist Mary Douglas published...
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February 2007
Social anthropologist Mary Douglas
published a brief study of literary composition entitled Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
Rothstein, Edward. “Texts That Run Rings Around Everyday Linear Logic”. The New York Times: Arts: Connections, 26 Mar. 2007.
Texts
Sterne, Laurence. Tristram Shandy. Ann Ward; R. and J. Dodsley; T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, 9 vols.
Sterne, Laurence. Tristram Shandy. Editor Work, James Aiken, Oxford University Press, 1986.