Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 16 (1796): 391
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Dedications | Anna Maria Mackenzie | This novel is available from Chawton House LibraryNovels Online at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The dedication is dated 1 March and the book was reviewed by July. An advertisement for AMM
's previous novel appears at the... |
Education | C. E. Plumptre | Though nothing is know of CEP
's early education, in later life she kept an extensive library. On visiting her, Frederick James Gould
noted that it was selected and arranged in an impressive order which... |
Education | Cassandra Cooke | Since her sister produced such large-scale, serious writings (without, apparently, any thought of publishing them) it seems that the Leigh girls must have been well educated. They grew up within but probably insulated from the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Wollstonecraft | She sets out, said the Critical Review, to critique the Revolution, unfolding its causes and probable consequences. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 2nd ser. 16 (1796): 391 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Gilding | The poems in pastoral form include religious meditations, hymns for Christmas, Easter, and other Christian festivals, love complaints, and addresses to abstracts such as Pride and Sincerity. Despair is a dramatic mini-narrative, beginning Moments on... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | After a preface on the subject of religion in fiction, an introductory chapter announces (though it anticipates the reader may lose interest here) that the narrator of the novel is to be a spinster of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Juliana Horatia Ewing | Child readers of Jackanapes sometimes remember better the portrait of a wild little boy, bold and generous but naughty in many ingenious ways, than the account of his heroic, self-sacrificing death in battle, with quotations... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Gaskell | The idea of self-improvement through writing and reading correlates to the strong emphasis in EG
's fiction on education and the impact of environment. This was undoubtedly influenced by a Unitarian intellectual background indebted to... |
Textual Features | Priscilla Wakefield | PW
welcomes the way that Adam Smith
and other Scottish Enlightenment writers have made womanhood a branch of philosophy, not a little interesting. qtd. in O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 106 |
Textual Features | Zadie Smith | Meanwhile Samad, under the pressure of menial work, low pay, constant low-level racist harrassment, a rebellious wife and insubordinate children, turns to religion. He nevertheless has an affair with one of his sons' teachers, and... |
Textual Features | Catharine Macaulay | Her topics here, all relevant to the escalating American demands for independence, are the declining economy, rising prices, and an oppressive burden of taxes. Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press, 1995. 19 |
Textual Production | Edith J. Simcox | She began work on this book as early as 1878. McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press, 1961. 75 |
Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | JB
's introduction cites Adam Smith
's Theory of Moral Sentiments. Her full title was A Series of Plays: In Which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind—Each Passion Being... |
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