Laurence Sterne

A preface (in the first volume) quotes the words of Samuel Johnson (with apology for applying them to so trifling a matter as novel-writing) about working at his dictionary amid grief and illness, feeling cut...

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...

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...

Here SHR makes a preface out of her unwillingness to write a preface: this concept is Sterne an, and so is the abrupt opening. I can't for my life see the necessity of it, said...

The Bookman review was almost ecstatic about this happy and . . . brilliant book. Picking up Fleming's tongue-in-cheek manner here, it praised her for depths of philosophy. All readers would benefit, it said, whether...

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...

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...

Virginia Woolf was angered by AM 's opinion that Jane Austen was a frump (and was even angrier that Meynell advised reading Sterne 's Tristram Shandy in an expurgated edition).

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...

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...

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.

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 ).

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...

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...