Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Virginia Woolf | Between 1 January and 30 June 1897, her reading included but was not limited to the following: Charlotte Brontë
, Lady Barlow
(a commentator on Charles Darwin
), Dinah Mulock Craik
, George Eliot
,... |
Education | Elinor Glyn | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ellis Cornelia Knight | ECK
's mother, née Philippina Deane
, was born in Essex on 17 November 1726. She was a descendant of Sir Anthony Deane
, shipbuilder, naval officer, Fellow of the Royal Society, and associate of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Stella Benson | According to her husband, SB
was a direct descendant of Samuel Pepys
's sister Pauline (whose married name was Jackson)
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Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Tollet | Her father met both Samuel Pepys
and John Evelyn
, the diarist, through his Navy Board work. He became a close friend of Evelyn, and was a friend too of Edmond Halley
, the astronomer. Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University, 2004. 5-7, 11-12 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Carleton | Her case attracted immediate interest, and while in prison she was visited by crowds of people. She said they came out of curiosity and were then converted into supporters and patrons. Samuel Pepys
, who... |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. A. Dillwyn | This heroine, who is appealing despite her undeniable priggishness, opens her diary under the aegis of Thomas Carlyle
(to whom she would have liked to dedicate her journal had he been alive, because of his... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Nina Hamnett | This book is highly readable: its fast-paced, witty narrative conducted in short sentences with few dates and even less of explanation or embroidery. NH
is positively off-hand about such important topics as her early relations... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Stella Benson | She began writing diaries at the age of nine, and continued the practice throughout her life. She may well have been influenced by the belief that she was a collateral descendant of the quintessential diarist,... |
Literary responses | Margaret Cavendish | These verse eulogies or testimonials came from distinguished persons and institutions to whom she had presented copies of her work. It circulated widely: the Dutch poet Constantijn Huygens
owned one of her books. Smith, Emma. Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book. Oxford University Press, 2016. 92 |
Occupation | Mary Carleton | MC
acted the role of herself on stage, in the perhaps single performance of a play by either Thomas Parker
or John Holden
entitled The German Princess; in the audience was Samuel Pepys
... |
Other Life Event | Margaret Cavendish | She received the standard visitor treatment, watching experiments selected to make a good display. But the appearance of a woman at the Society was abnormal, and Samuel Pepys
made considerable fuss beforehand about the adverse... |
Textual Production | Margaret Cavendish | When a comedy by MC
's husband the Duke of Newcastle, The Humorous Lovers, was acted in 1667, many of the audience (including Samuel Pepys
and Aphra Behn
's lover Jeffrey Boys
) supposed... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | The essays include Samuel Pepys
and Francis Bacon
, Lord Verulam
and Viscount St. Albans, A Curiosity of Literature not Mentioned by Isaac Disraeli and Servants. Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. Shells from the Sands of Time. Bickers and Son, 1876, http://U of Toronto. title-page |
Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Montagu | By her marriage EM
acquired wealth and improved her social standing. Edward Montagu was a grandson of the first Earl of Sandwich
(admiral and patron of Samuel Pepys
). He owned mines in the rapidly-developing... |