Laurence Sterne

Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson (whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), it encompasses Blair , Sterne and Smollett as travel-writers, and Homer . Grant charges Samuel Johnson

This highly unusual novel takes the form of a disconnected journal by a publisher's secretary named Pompey, an alienated but irrepressible member of the disregarded female work-force, who is clearly an alter-ego for SS ...

The two subsidiary poems are Macareus to Æolus, Done in imitation of Dryden 's Canace to Macareus and Æolus to Pluto. They and Variety are whimsical, contorted, paradoxical—and brilliant. They revel in...

Here CS turns a satiric eye on expatriates in Switzerland in the harsh years that followed the second world war. Her characters have mostly come through the war with money which they wish to protect...

She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone , who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities...

The last hundred pages of the book are somewhat anticlimactic, though DDB retains a liveliness of Shandean cast. Now methinks, I hear my youthful reader cry, but when shall we hear of this same love...

Choice of women writers is fairly generous, with excerpts from Hester Mulso Chapone , John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld (Evenings at Home), Susanna Haswell Rowson , Elizabeth Carter , Hester Thrale ,...

The influence of Sterne is discernible in the way MW 's immediate feeling and later meditations are awakened by personal encounters along the way with people like the oppressed and near-destitute Norwegian wet-nurse, or the...

The author complains in the dedication (signed Eliza Craven) of the impostor (her first husband's mistress) who has been travelling in Europe under her name and title, and enlists the Margrave's brotherly support for...

The pair lived a peripatetic existence, since Charles Mathews was working for Tate Wilkinson 's touring company. They went to York after their London visit, and spent some time in Hull. Their final lodging...

It has been until recently a given of literary history that William Beckford had his half-sister in his sights in his two burlesques on women's novel-writing. The title-page of the first quotes Pope , thus...

Jewett wrote both diaries and letters from an early age, and was an avid reader. Reminiscing, she said she remembered thinking that if I could write just as Miss Thackeray did in her charming stories...

Travel pieces which DMC had published in the new English Illustrated Magazine became An Unsentimental Journey through Cornwall, published later that year (titled with reference to Laurence Sterne ).

Like her mother and the family friend Catherine Hutton, EH was skilled at decorative arts. She fashioned a miniature medallion, depicting Sterne 's sentimental character Maria, out of Hutton's hair.

Later this year the black Londoner Ignatius Sancho singled out Laurence Sterne and the humane author of Sir George Ellison as the only writers to have drawn a tear in favour of my miserable black...