Grant, Anne. Memoirs of an American Lady. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Birth | Anne Grant | As a girl she wished for a little sister whom she could teach to enjoy Milton
. |
| Cultural formation | Lucy Hutton | She was born into the English professional class: its upper ranks, if the motto on her published title-page is a family one. As befitting her marriage to a clergyman, she was a strong member of... |
| Cultural formation | Ephelia | If this was Ephelia, she grew up in an extremely wealthy, noble family and an incomparably privileged environment, with King James I
her honorary grandfather as well as her godfather, and with fine literature produced... |
| Cultural formation | Frances Arabella Rowden | FAR
came from the English middle class. She was an Anglican
in religion. Mary Russell Mitford
represents her as a young teacher taking a relaxed attitude to religious ideas in literary contexts (her students were... |
| Dedications | Hannah Cowley | One early performance drew bigger crowds than Drury Lane, although the rival theatre that night featured Sarah Siddons
on stage and the king and queen in the audience. More Ways Than One was published on... |
| Education | Anna Seward | Anna's education was largely overseen by her parents. Before she was three she could recite passages from Milton
's L'Allegro and by nine the first three books of Paradise Lost. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 8 She was later... |
| Education | Joanna Baillie | From the age of ten she went to a boarding school in Glasgow which specialised in transforming healthy little hoydens into perfect little ladies. Witchcraft by Joanna Baillie. Finborough Theatre. |
| Education | Charlotte Brontë | Their education continued at home from a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England, Hannah More
's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts
's Doctrine... |
| Education | Catherine Cookson | The house had no books and when a lodger brought in Shakespeare, Milton
, and Donne
, they were pronounced unsuitable for a child. CC
did read a Shakespeare
sonnet at about this age and... |
| Education | Elizabeth Taylor | Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books. 12-13 |
| Education | Emily Brontë | Thereafter, Patrick Brontë
educated his remaining children at home, using standard educational texts including Thomas Salmon
's A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, a condensed version of Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England,... |
| Education | Edna St Vincent Millay | Three years after her highschool graduation, doors suddenly opened for ESVM
to go to college, although her preparation had not reached the standard generally demanded. Donors offered to support her at Vassar College
(through Caroline B. Dow |
| Education | Florence Dixie | Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary... |
| Education | Brigid Brophy | BB
's education (disrupted by the second war) included attending a state school (coeducational) and private schools both boys', girls', and mixed-sex. She was intellectually precocious at every stage. As a little girl at the... |
| Education | Tabitha Tenney | Whether or not TT
's education was Puritanical (most sources about her life have no higher status than gossip) she was well read in the emergent canon of English literature, from Shakespeare
and Milton
through... |
Timeline
8 November 1623: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies,...
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8 November 1623
Shakespeare
's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, collected (with one or two omissions) and posthumously published this year in a handsome large-format edition (the First Folio) were registered with the Stationers' Company
.
Christmas Day 1629: John Milton finished his ode On the morning...
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Christmas Day 1629
John Milton
finished his odeOn the morning of Christ's Nativity. It was his first religious poem in English.
29 September 1634: Milton's masque later known as Comus was...
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29 September 1634
Milton
's masque later known as Comus was performed at Ludlow Castle with music by Henry Lawes
, to mark the installation of Lord Bridgewater
as Lord President of Wales.
Late 1638: Milton's pastoral elegy Lycidas appeared...
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Late 1638
Milton
's pastoralelegyLycidas appeared in a volume of Cambridge
poems published in memory of Edward King
, who had died by drowning.
By 31 May 1641: Milton entered (anonymously) the ideological...
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By 31 May 1641
Milton
entered (anonymously) the ideological battle surrounding episcopacy (government of the Church of England
by bishops) with the first of his five anti-prelatical pamphlets, Of Reformation touching Church Discipline in England.
1 August 1643: Milton published The Doctrine and Discipline...
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1 August 1643
Milton
published The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, a pamphlet arguing that divorce ought to be easier (for a husband).
23 November 1644: John Milton published Areopagitica, which...
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23 November 1644
John Milton
published Areopagitica, which has become one of his most famous prose tracts because of its subject-matter: a condemnation of censorship, or (stretching its original position slightly) even a defence of freedom of speech.
2 January 1646: According to collector George Thomason, this...
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2 January 1646
According to collector George Thomason
, this was the publication date of Poems of Mr. John Milton
, both English and Latin. Compos'd at several times, which was dated 1645. It included the paired...
13 February 1649: Following the king's execution, Milton published...
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13 February 1649
Following the king
's execution, Milton
published The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, a pamphlet designed to enforce the general point that a tyrant may be lawfully got rid of.
3 March 1660: Milton published The Readie and Easie Way...
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3 March 1660
Milton
published The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, a pamphlet designed to sway public opinion against the restoration either of the monarchy or of rule by any single individual.
October 1667: John Milton published his epic poem Paradise...
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October 1667
John Milton
published his epicpoemParadise Lost, which he had begun dictating before the Restoration and entered in the Stationers' Register in August.
May 1671: John Milton published, together, Paradise...
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May 1671
John Milton
published, together, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes: a small-scale religious epic and a blank-verse tragedy.
November 1681: John Dryden published his political satire...
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November 1681
John Dryden
published his political satireAbsalom and Achitophel, at Charles II
's personal suggestion, just a week before the first Earl of Shaftesbury
's trial for treason.
By late 1697: John Dryden published by subscription his...
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By late 1697
John Dryden
published by subscription his versetranslation of Virgil
's Works; it was the first time a literary work by a living author had been published by this means.
20 May 1707: Jacob Tonson the elder signed the first of...
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20 May 1707
Jacob Tonson
the elder signed the first of two copyright agreements giving him sole right in Shakespeare
's plays.
Texts
Campbell, Gordon, and John Milton. “Introduction and Notes”. The Complete Poems, edited by Bernard Arker Wright and Bernard Arker Wright, New Edition, J. M. Dent and Sons, 1980, p. xv - xxix, passim.
Milton, John. Lament for Damon. Translator Waddell, Helen, Privately printed, 1943.
Milton, John. “Paradise Lost (1667)”. University of Virginia Library: Electronic Text Center, Scolar Press.
Milton, John. Poems. Editor Wright, Bernard Arker, J. M. Dent; E. P. Dutton, 1959.