Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hamilton | EH
seeks to raise the canonical status of the novel in this work not only by serious politico-philosophical content, but also by chapter-heading quotations from the classics (from Horace
, Shakespeare
, and Milton
to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | The title-page quotes Samuel Johnson
asserting that an author has nothing but his own merits to stand or fall on. The Birth of Genius, an irregular ode, offers advice to my son to love... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The action of this novel takes place in many different parts of Italy. Its features include a mystery over the heroine's birth (her mother was an escaped nun and her father was burned by... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Clara Reeve | An epigraph to The Champion of Virtue quotes from Horace
's Ars Poetica about how a text should communicate sense as well as pleasure. In an Address to the ReaderCR
makes the familiar claim... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Delarivier Manley | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | DPC
was one of those claiming serious status for the novel by literary allusion. She uses Horace
on her title-page, Pope
to head the whole novel, and for chapter-headings Chaucer
, Shakespeare
, Goldsmith
... |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Talbot | Her closest friends in childhood were Jemima Campbell (later Marchioness Grey)
and Lady Mary Grey (later Gregory)
. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 65 Literary historian Sylvia Harcstark Myers
relates a story about the anxiety which Jemima, Lady Grey, claimed... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Jourdain had published a translation of Horace
's Odes in 1904 and the important History of English Secular Embroidery in 1910: in the latter year she also published almost sixty articles on a wide variety... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | The couple had four daughters and a son. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Boswell, James. Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Editors Hill, George Birkbeck and Laurence Fitzroy Powell, Clarendon. 3: 319 |
death | Sylvia Townsend Warner | After her death, STW
's house, full of a jumble of possessions and mementoes, was occupied at first by a friend of hers, but later by a tenant who was hostile and systematically burned anything... |
death | Valentine Ackland | |
Anthologization | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's poems were circulating at least by 1714, in manuscript, or in the opportunistic publications of others, or both. After her death William Duncombe
printed one of her imitations of odes by Horace
which... |
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