McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
Jean-François Marmontel
Standard Name: Marmontel, Jean-François
Used Form: Jean-Francois Marmontel
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | The widely varied quotations heading the chapters include some in Latin (Virgil
, Cicero
, Lucretius
, Horace
) and some in French (Rousseau
, Voltaire
, Marmontel
, and Manon Roland
). The English writers quoted include Mary Robinson
. |
| Literary responses | Harriet Lee | The Critical Review (which thought the first volume of Canterbury Tales resembled the work of Marmontel
, but happily without his profligate principles) was enthusiastic: We expect the second volume with impatience, as we have... |
| Performance of text | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
's comedy The Platonic Wife (based on one of Marmontel
's tales, L'heureux divorce) opened at Drury Lane
. Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, p. vii - xviii. xxx Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Rizzo, Betty. “’Depressa Resurgam’: Elizabeth Griffith’s Playwriting Career”. Curtain Calls, edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski, Ohio University Press, 1991, pp. 120-42. 126 |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Brooke | Some years before her death CB
wrote her tragedy Belisarius on a story popularised by Marmontel
in his Bélisaire, 1767 (which had first reached English in the same year as its French publication). Charles Kemble |
| Textual Production | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | The year after Gonzalvo of Cordova, Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre)
wrote her next historical tragedy, Pedarias, a Tragic Drama, basing her work this time on Les Incas by Jean-François Marmontel Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Production | Radagunda Roberts | RR
's earliest identified publication was a translation, begun as a French exercise, of Jean-François Marmontel
's highflown tales of maternal and marital love, which appeared at Gloucester as Select Moral Tales, By a Lady. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
was probably one of the contributors to volume one of Moral Tales, an anonymous translation from Marmontel
's Contes moraux. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Timeline
1756: Jeanne Le Prince de Beaumont published Le...
Writing climate item
1756
Jeanne Le Prince de Beaumont
published Le Magasin des enfants, a collection containing the first influential and literary formulation of the popular fairy story Beauty and the Beast.
Zipes, Jack. “The Origins of the Fairy Tale for Children or, How Script was Used To Tame the Beast in Us”. Children and Their Books: A Celebration of the Work of Iona and Peter Opie, edited by Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs, Clarendon Press, 1989, pp. 119-34.
125-6
Texts
Marmontel, Jean-François. Select Moral Tales. Translator Roberts, Radagunda, 1763.