Beaumont, Agnes. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont. Editor Camden, Vera J., Colleagues Press.
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politics | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | |
Other Life Event | Agnes Beaumont | The night after her father's death, AB
was accused by Feery of poisoning him. The accusation was made first to her brother. Beaumont, Agnes. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont. Editor Camden, Vera J., Colleagues Press. 70-1 |
Leisure and Society | Mary Jones | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Monica Furlong | She begins arrestingly: We live in a period in which it is not possible to talk meaningfully about God. Furlong, Monica. The End of Our Exploring. Hodder and Stoughton. 13 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Richardson | Her heroine Miriam, now twenty-six, looks into her past and future in an attempt to come to terms with herself. The novel is divided into four chapters: on the whole the first is dominated by... |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Buchan | The Bunyan
esque title is echoed in occasional chapter titles of the same kind, from The Wicket-Gate to The Summons Comes to Mr. Standfast. The effect is to create an ironic comparison between Bunyan's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Robinson | The title sounds like an allusion more to Thackeray
than to Bunyan
. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Zadie Smith | The public unveiling of FutureMouse is a climactic scene that brings together most of the novel's central characters. It begins with a speech by Dr Marc-Pierre Perret, an experimental geneticist, Marcus Chalfen's mentor—whom as a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Bury | Here she concludes by quoting, unascribed, eight lines of poetry by Congreve
beginning When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly Fair. Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Editor Bury, Samuel, Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint. 189 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Steele | Surviving prose by AS
includes miscellaneous as well as predominantly religious pieces. The Journey of Life, reminiscent of John Bunyan
's The Pilgrim's Progress or Samuel Johnson
's Vision of Theodore, opens with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Martin Taylor | The debt to Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress (often quoted here) is obvious. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Corp | The introduction presents an old gentleman whose impatience with religious novels is being patiently reasoned away by his grandson with a reminder that the category includes Bunyan
. An elderly bachelor, a reviewer, a boarding-school... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Latter | ML
here accords honorific citation to Dryden
and Pope
, Latter, Mary. Pro & Con. T. Lowndes. 31-2 Latter, Mary. Pro & Con. T. Lowndes. vii, 14 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Maria Tucker | Here a mother tells her children the story of a knight, Fides or Faithful, who slays various giants (Sloth, Pride, Untruth, etc.). The story-within-a-story was one of CMT
's favourite techniques. Bratton, Jacqueline S. The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction. Croom Helm. 74-5 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Lynn Linton | Her one-paragraph preface says these pieces were written long since,in the days of crinoline,croquet, and the violent purples of the then new aniline dyes. This places the period of composition in the 1860s, after... |
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