Laurence Sterne

Popular fiction of PA 's type is a target of parody in Henry Fielding 's Jonathan Wild.Sterne , too, may have had her work in mind in his burlesque story of the...

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...

The Critical Review situated this work in reference to two others: Sterne 's Sentimental Journey and Elizabeth Bonhote 's The Rambles of Mr. Frankly. (It apparently did not remember Eliza Haywood 's The Invisible...

The first volume's appearance was warmly welcomed by the Critical Review in a brief review which called the writer he:the only note of reproof concerned excessive imitation of Sterne . The...

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...

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....

Barbara Churchill, a clever, shy, ugly, awkward child, is sent by her harsh and unappreciative father to stay for a year in Suffolk with her aunt Ann Shandyshaft, who is as eccentric...

Her ordinary working-class family here (quite the same as everyone else) consists of Henry and Lorna Tripp, their three children and their elders. She makes Angela, the character most like herself, a purposely...

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)...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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