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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucy Aikin | LA
's preface denies the absurd notion that absolute gender equality might be feasible and advises women not to attempt to become inferior men. But she asserts, there is not an endowment, or propensity, or... |
Textual Features | Rose Allatini | This novel traces the young life of Olive Dalcroze: her personal development and her stifling by society. As a little girl she vies with her flamboyant French cousin Renée (who later falls from respectable society)... |
Leisure and Society | Jane Austen | In 2009 another scholarly furore greeted the Juvenilia Press
edition of Austen's History of England by Annette Upfal
and Christine Alexander
. The editors argued (here and in an article) that Cassandra Austen's tiny sketches... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | EOB
published another, more ambitious historical biography, Memoirs of the Life of Mary, Queen of Scots. Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 28: 267 O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press. 220 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | EOB
writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld
for praising Elizabeth Rowe
. She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington
is the real author of... |
Textual Features | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | Each title-page proclaims: If the cap fits, wear it—perhaps acknowledging the à clef element of the story. Bradshaw, Mary Ann Cavendish. Memoirs of Maria, Countess d’Alva. William Miller. 1: title-page |
Textual Features | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | Having had the heart-rending misery to deplore the death of my dear children, the countess now longs to die too, Bradshaw, Mary Ann Cavendish. Memoirs of Maria, Countess d’Alva. William Miller. 1: 56 |
Textual Features | Frances Brooke | Brooke's advertisement to volume 3 says she gave up her plan for an essay on the writing of history, and settled instead on using notes to demonstrate how this work is, as all history ought... |
Textual Production | Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne | Purdie and Smith worked at the behest of an all-female editorial committee McGuirk, Carol. “Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne)”. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Vol. 47 , No. 2/3, pp. 253-87. 258 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | A biographical lecture on Queen Elizabeth
(originally addressed to Working Women's College
students) is also reprinted. The lecture begins: Queen Elizabeth, when first she saw the light of day, was a great disappointment. She was... |
Textual Production | Mary Deverell | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Deverell | In a prologue MD
jokes about her own daring to judge Queen Elizabeth. Her language is formal and stilted, but she has a strong dramatic grasp of the complex and shifting feelings of Mary
and... |
Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | QEI
wrote twenty surviving letters to her cousin and eventual successor, James VI of Scotland
, whose mother
she held so long in captivity. Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press. 261-97, 355-403 |
Friends, Associates | Queen Elizabeth I | The flight of Mary, Queen of Scots
from her own country in May 1568 into Elizabeth's domain caused the English queen much heart-burning. Mary (Elizabeth's cousin) was an obvious pretender to the throne, representing the... |
Reception | Queen Elizabeth I | The immense and long-lasting interest aroused by Elizabeth is not, of course, primarily due to her writings, any more than were the adulation paid her during her lifetime, the cult of Gloriana, the Virgin Queen... |
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