Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes Francis Bacon
and Joseph Addison
. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press. 68 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Oliver Hobbes | JOH
sometimes discusses her own writing, career, and ambition: One's place in literature is a possession—never a concession. And one knows one's place. I don't wish to be judged—one way or the other—till I am... |
Reception | Elizabeth Helme | The Critical reviewed this novel two months after publication. It goes unmentioned by Virgil B. Heltzel
in Fair Rosamond. A Study of the Development of a Literary Theme, 1947. Those preceding Helme in treating... |
Textual Features | Eliza Haywood | This magazine has a second supposed author: the parrot, who is male. This creature, born in Java, has seen the world, since its long life has been spent with fifty-five different families successively. Though not... |
Reception | Eliza Haywood | In 1795, by which time the novel was generally disapproved as coarse and sexually explicit, a correspondent of the Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
defended it in terms which acknowledged its indelicate language and its... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Haywood | This was the first periodical for women to take advantage of the monthly format, which was still fairly new. Unlike other magazines, it used fiction as its staple, while also including advice on behaviour, relationships... |
Education | Sarah Josepha Hale | |
Education | Anne Grant | Of her childhood, AG
wrote that she developed early powers of imagination and memory, but received little attention: no one fondled or caressed me . . . I did not till the sixth year of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Martha Fowke | These poems reflect social life and perhaps the company of lawyers in the London of about 1720. Guskin, Phyllis J. “’Not Originally Intended for the Press’: Martha Fowke Sansom’s Poems in the Barbados Gazette”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 34 , No. 1, pp. 61-91. 66 |
Textual Features | Margaret Forster | The novel opens arrestingly as the child Gwen and her siblings struggle back into their house from a walk in wild and stormy weather. Gwen's later-famous brother is called Gus, not Augustus
, to forestall... |
Education | Ann Fisher | It is not known where or how AF
acquired an education, but she certainly did so, to a far higher level than was normal for people of her class, regardless of their gender. She had... |
Textual Features | Sarah Fielding | David Simple predates all fictional work by Samuel Johnson
and all but the earliest works by Henry Fielding
and Samuel Richardson
, which are sometimes mistakenly spoken of as its models. It may be seen... |
Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | SC
complimented Anne Oldfield
's acting in Addison
's Cato, with a poem written in Oldfield's copy of Fontenelle
's Plurality of Worlds. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 149-50 |
Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | SC
's later occasional poems include an epistle to and pastoral elegy on her fellow-playwright Nicholas Rowe
and a twenty-first birthday poem for Addison
's stepson. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 221-6 |
Textual Features | Frances Brooke | Mary Singleton, supposed author of this paper, with its trenchant comments on society and politics, is an unmarried woman on the verge of fifty, McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press. 14 |
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