Gore, Catherine. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore. Editor Franceschina, John, Garland, 1999.
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Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
Standard Name: Marie-Antoinette,, Queen of France
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary Setting | Catherine Gore | The queen in question is Marie Antoinette
; the action takes place before and during the French Revolution, at the Trianon of Versailles and at a chateau near Epernay in Champagne. |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Germaine de Staël | Shocked by the Reign of Terror in France, GS
from her exile in Switzerland published Réflexions sur le procès de la reine: a brave anonymous pamphlet pleading for the queen
's life. Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol. 4 , 2001, pp. 12-35. 25 Lonchamp, Frédéric-Charles. L’Œuvre Imprimé de Madame Germaine de Staël. Suisse, 1949. 14 |
| Occupation | Grace Elliott | Her biographers, indeed, wonder if she may have been a spy. She spoke to an agent of d'Orléans
in Brussels; on a later visit she carried a letter there for Marie-Antoinette
; she may perhaps... |
| politics | Grace Elliott | GE
(who by her own account seldom missed a historic occasion) was present when Marie-Antoinette
went to the theatre, the Comédie Italienne, with her two eldest children: her last public appearance before her execution. Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. Rodale Press, 1955. 39-41 |
| Publishing | Mary Hays | She was commissioned to produce this work for the occasion of |
| Publishing | Margaret Holford | Probably a number of Holford's poems circulated in manuscript, as did one on a portrait of Marie Antoinette
. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 2: 551-2 |
| Textual Features | Hilary Mantel | Mantel's starting point was her choice, when invited to select a book as gift for a celebrity, of Caroline Weber
's Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette
Wore to the Revolution as a present for... |
| Textual Features | Rumer Godden | It is set in a Kashmir mountain village, where a young widow, Sophie, settles with her two children. Left short of money by her husband's death, she finds standard colonial life stultifying, feels that the... |
| Textual Features | Christina Stead | The protagonist couple in this novel are both US Communists in the 1940s. Stephen Howard is an Ivy-League-educated child of privilege; his wife, Emily Wilkes, who says she comes from Hix-on-the-Stix, is an exuberant... |
| Textual Features | Lucille Iremonger | It relates the story told in a book called An Adventure, 1911, by Charlotte Moberly
and Eleanor Frances Jourdain
, Principal and Deputy Principal of St Hugh's College
(which LI
herself had attended). In... |
| Textual Features | Anna Seward | AS
's correspondence often deals with literary matters as well as with social matters and personalities. She writes with astonishing freedom to Hester Piozzi
about the latter's travel book Observations and Reflections: not only... |
| Textual Features | Hélène Barcynska | The eponymous heroine of The Activities (officially named Lavinia but always called Lavie) is an American railroad heiress, whose father arranges for her to be introduced into English high society by Lady Loamington, who badly... |
| Textual Production | Mary Robinson | |
| Textual Production | Mary Robinson | MR
published her Monody to the Memory of the Late Queen
of France. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994. xiii |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
's next two Victoria Holt novels appeared in 1966 and 1967: Menfreya (published in the USA as Menfreya in the Morning) and The King of the Castle, respectively. She then allowed Holt... |
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