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Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
Standard Name: Marie-Antoinette,, Queen of France
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | AF
published her next historical biography, Marie Antoinette
: The Journey. Foreman, Amanda. “Unfit for a queen”. Guardian Unlimited, 17 June 2001. Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, 24 Aug. 2002, pp. 16-19. 19 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
| Textual Production | Ann Yearsley | AY
published An Elegy on Marie Antoinette. Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996. 214 |
| Textual Production | Frances Sarah Hoey | A lifelong Francophile, FSH
supplemented her income through translations of twenty-seven French and Italian texts, seven in collaboration with John Lillie
. During the 1870's and 1880's she produced an average of more than one... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | EMA
goes into some detail about the French court and royal family from the time that she lived at Versailles, pausing too to do justice to the talents of Madame Genlis, if only in... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Martineau | The Peasant and the Prince treats the plight of Louis XIV
and Marie Antoinette
during the French Revolution. It ends with moralising comment: If such a people in such a land were miserable, some... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Robinson | MR
writes as a friend to the Revolution, but enters with strong emotion into the personal situation of the queen
as the victim of scandal and prejudice. She cites Elizabeth I
and Cromwell
as examples... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Grace Elliott | GE
concentrates on her Revolution experiences; the rest of her life-story remains untold. Her work bears the marks of its birth as oral history. She presents the French Revolution in black and white moral terms... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Moody | Personal matters mingle with others of public or topical interest, as EM
addresses Joseph Priestley
on the inter-relation of matter and spirit, Marie Antoinette
on her sufferings before her execution, and Dr Thomas Huet
on... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eglinton Wallace | She recommends the study of history, and her moral exhortation leans heavily on anecdotal, historical examples. (She also uses quotations from her own unpublished tragedy.) Wallace, Eglinton. Letter from Lady Wallace to Capt. William Wallace. J. Debrett, 1792. 62 |
| Travel | Ellis Cornelia Knight | They first spent some time in Paris, where a highlight of their stay was a sight of Louis XVI
and Marie Antoinette
at the Palace of Versailles. Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co., 1960. 37 |
| Travel | Ellis Cornelia Knight | Naples was then the capital of the ancien-régime kingdom of Naples and Sicily (also known as the Two Sicilies), and they were presented there to its queen, Maria Carolina
, whom ECK
found to be... |
| Travel | Mary Robinson | MR
visited France; in Paris she was feted by society, and received a valuable present from Marie Antoinette
. The Highfill
dictionary dates this a couple of years later. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19-64. 30, 63 Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993. 13: 35-6 |
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