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Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Robert Lee Wolff
argues that this is one of MEB
's very best Wilkie Collins
-style investigations. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 243 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Latter | ML
here accords honorific citation to Dryden
and Pope
, Latter, Mary. Pro & Con. T. Lowndes. 31-2 Latter, Mary. Pro & Con. T. Lowndes. vii, 14 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Taylor | Tomkins (whose words open the novel in very much the way that Sterne
's narrator opens A Sentimental Journey) is in search of a wife, but early rules out the heroine from consideration. She... |
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 | Mrs Martin | Each volume has an introductory chapter, addressing the reader in the manner of, and with some images borrowed from, Henry Fielding
or Laurence Sterne
(the latter, indeed, is mentioned by name). MM
hopes her reader... |
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.... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amelia B. Edwards | Barbara Churchill, a clever, shy, ugly, awkward child, Athenæum. J. Lection. 1888 (1864): 15 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maggie Gee | Her ordinary working-class family here (quite the same as everyone else) Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helena Wells | The heroine's father is a Hamburg merchant (which perhaps explains the book's Hamburg subscribers). She is born in Barbados (where her mother, on arrival, would have been perfectly happy, but for the black servants)... |
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 | 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 | 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 | A. Woodfin | Mrs Dubois makes a second marriage to a widower, Mr Ravenshaw. Something in their Minds attracted them to each other. They thought it was Friendship, and called it so; but their Friends termed it Love... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Beeton | The chapter on Domestic Servants opens by noting archly the conviction that the race of good servants has died out, at least in England, although they do order these things better in France Beeton, Isabella. Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management. Editor Humble, Nicola, Oxford University Press. 392 The... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | The day was spent travelling from Glasgow to Inveraray. The writer throws in quotations and allusions (Edward Young
, the Bible, Macpherson
's Ossian and Homer
's Odyssey, Sterne
and Smollett |
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