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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

EGF had met novelist Laurence Sterne and botanist-physician John Fothergill in London. Among her large circle of friends at home, other writers were prominent. She knew the poet Nathaniel Evans and the physician and educator...

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...

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...

Writing by SJD suggests that some of her early reading included Sterne and Defoe . She also had access to Blackwood's and the Cornhill Magazine, and romantic novels by Mary Cecil Hay and Mary Jane Holmes .

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...

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 ).

There follows a fighting critical Dissertation Respecting Patrons and Dedications, which covers the issues of male disrespect for female authors, the tyranny of critics, and over-insistence on moral instruction (with Hannah More 's Coelebs...