Laurence Sterne

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 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...

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...

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 ...

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 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 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...

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