Laurence Sterne

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...

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...

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...

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

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

In addition to quotation from Milton , Pope , and Thomson , this book has a Sterne an flavour, with passages titled from sights (like The Theatre Royal and The Merchants's Court) alternating with...

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...

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.

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

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...

ML here accords honorific citation to Dryden and Pope , repeated mockery to the over-long words she sees as favoured by Dr Johnson , and contempt to the famous John Bunyan of...

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...

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.AL

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 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...