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Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hands | In Critical Fragments, on some of the English Poets (seven poets, all male), EH
wittily exercises an imitation which is far from flattery. She begins with Milton
, who in ponder'ous verse, moves greatly on... |
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... |
Education | Janet Hamilton | She attributed her power of language and ability for composition to reading the works of good authors, Hamilton, Janet. Poems, Essays, and Sketches. James Maclehose. viii |
Textual Production | Janet Hamilton | Although he comments on the defects caused by a lack of classical education, and seems to rate her moral character more highly than her literary ability, Gilfillan
pronounces Hamilton's work to be of uncommon excellence... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Maria Hall | The novel is set in seventeenth-century England, during the time of Cromwell's protectorate. Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe. 145 Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. Hall, Anna Maria. The Buccaneer. R. Bentley. 66 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Education | Sarah Josepha Hale | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Griffith | He describes her with a line from Donne
's Second Anniversary. EG
's range of reference here includes Rousseau
, Milton
, Frances Greville
, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
. Characters discuss and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dora Greenwell | Her allegorical poem Bring Me Word How Tall She Is begins Within a garden shade, A garden sweet and dim, Two happy children played Together; he was made For God, and she for him. Greenwell, Dora. Camera Obscura. Daldy, Isbister. 62 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | |
Textual Production | Christian Gray | A second volume of CG
's poetry appeared, this time at Perth and entitled A New Selection of Miscellaneous Pieces, in Verse: again her title-page quotes from the third book of Paradise Lost... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christian Gray | Milton
was clearly an inspiration to Gray because of his blindness: this shows a fair level of self-confidence in her. The author's name appears with the description blind from her infancy, which emphasises the charitable... |
Textual Production | Christian Gray | CG
's first book of poetry, Tales, Letters, and other Pieces in Verse, was published at Edinburgh, with a dedication to the dowager Countess of Kinnoull
and a quotation from Milton
on the title-page. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Birth | Anne Grant | As a girl she wished for a little sister whom she could teach to enjoy Milton
. Grant, Anne. Memoirs of an American Lady. Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme. 2: 153 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Grant | The most important friends of the young Anne MacVicar were Catalina Schuyler
(whom she calls Madame, and with whom her first bond was a shared love of Milton
) and the little girl Catalina... |
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