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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 Features | Mary Wollstonecraft | Though only about twenty percent of its extracts are written by women (the same proportion as from the Bible), McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 501 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's various poems about marriage make all the usual points deployed by those writers who set themselves against the current legal drawbacks of marriage for women. She translated Latin epigrams attributed to two famous... |
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)... |
Textual Production | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | MAS
describes several very early writing projects. When her mother gave her a writing-case which locked, to ensure privacy, she spent hours in pouring out the effusions of my own bitter heart, Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. 1: 314 |
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 Production | Alison Uttley | |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
entertained the idea of writing about Elizabeth I
: perhaps a comparison between her and Catherine de Medici
. She had long taken an interest in Elizabeth as a masculine woman exercising power: had... |
Textual Production | Sir Walter Scott | Sir Walter Scott
, as the author of Waverley (knighted this year), published The Abbot, a historical novel whose view of Mary Queen of Scots
stands in complex relationship to the trial of |
Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | ES
, near the end of her life, published a new biography of Elizabeth I
and Mary Queen of Scots
: The Queens and the Hive. (Her final poetry volume came out on the same day.) Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis. 77 |
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 |
Textual Production | Muriel Spark | She continued to write after settling in London, and in early 1945 was at work on a verse drama about Mary, Queen of Scots
. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 74 |
Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | EH
published a biography, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots: a new genre for her. The title-page claimed that it was a translation from French. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 233, 236 Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press. 191 |
Textual Production | Carola Oman | CO
published the two first of her carefully-researched historical novels, The Road Royal (about Mary Queen of Scots
), and, later the same year, Princess Amelia. “Obituary: Miss Carola Oman”. Times, p. 16. 16 |
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