Hawkins, Laetitia-Matilda. Memoirs, Anecdotes, Facts and Opinions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, and C. and J. Rivington, 1824, 2 vols.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Harriette Wilson | HW
's story of her education is one of tyranny and resistance. Her worst beating from her father was incurred for obstinacy. Her elder sister Jane (called Diana in her memoirs) was supposed to teach... |
| Education | Anne Brontë | Their later reading drew on a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England, Hannah More
's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts
's Doctrine of... |
| Education | Dorothy Whipple | As a small child DW
loved the Bible. She had a child's bible with illustrations, and was fascinated by stories of Christ's miracles (though a blind man took it badly when she proposed spitting... |
| Education | Charlotte Brontë | Their education continued at home from a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England, Hannah More
's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts
's Doctrine... |
| Education | Emily Brontë | Thereafter, Patrick Brontë
educated his remaining children at home, using standard educational texts including Thomas Salmon
's A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, a condensed version of Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England,... |
| Education | Roxburghe Lothian | Her mother began teaching her out of Goldsmith
's History of England (1764), started Elizabeth on the piano before she was five, and engaged a Swiss woman to teach her French, but found both her... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Gilding | Like her, he was a contributor to magazines: a juvenile work by him appeared in the Lady's Magazine in 1775, and he later contributed to the European and other magazines under the name of Fidelio... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ellen Johnston | She stoutly rejects Goldsmith
's assertion that a woman who has stooped to folly can only die: I did not, however, feel inclined to die when I could no longer conceal what the world falsely... |
| Friends, Associates | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | Visitors to her parents' house included Oliver Goldsmith
and Samuel Johnson
, whom the Hawkins children nicknamed Polyphemus, after the one-eyed giant in the Odyssey. |
| Friends, Associates | Samuel Johnson | Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period... |
| Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | During her childhood, ECK
associated with a variety of celebrated people through her family connections. Her mother was a close friend of painter and writer Frances Reynolds
(sister to the more famous painter Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Arthur Murphy
, Edmund Burke
, Oliver Goldsmith
, Charles Burney
, and David Garrick
. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987. 157 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | The poem is one of exile, owing something to Goldsmith
's The Traveller, combining observation of nature with personal feeling: My weary footsteps hoped for rest in vain, / Steep on steep in rude... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Mackenzie | A title-page quotation from John MiltonParadise Lost puts together, with an only an ellipsis between them, the persuasive powers of the fallen angel Belial (who could make the worse appear / The better reason) and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | Angelina, generally treated as a descendant of Charlotte Lennox
's Female Quixote, shows just how permeable is the boundary between ME
's juvenile and adult fiction. It warns against influence from the wrong... |
Timeline
1705: According to Oliver Goldsmith, Beau Nash...
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1705
According to Oliver Goldsmith
, Beau Nash
arrived in Bath, whose social life he was to dominate for so long, the same year that the town began its brilliant architectural redesigning.
Shuttleton, David. “Mary Chandlers Description of Bath (1733): the poetic topographies of an Augustan tradeswoman”. Womens Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 3, 2000, pp. 447-67. 466n40
September 1759-1763: The Hon. Mrs Stanhope issued a periodical...
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September 1759-1763
The Hon. Mrs Stanhope issued a periodical entitled The Lady's Magazine, or polite companion for the fair sex. Its aim was instruction as well as entertainment, and it sometimes strikes a proto-feminist note.
Prescott, Sarah, and Jane Spencer. “Prattling, tattling and knowing everything: public authority and the female editorial persona in the early essay-periodical”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2000, pp. 43-57. 44
24 January 1760-14 August 1761: The Public Ledger printed Oliver Goldsmith's...
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24 January 1760-14 August 1761
The Public Ledger printed Oliver Goldsmith
's series of essays entitled Letters from a Citizen of the World to his Friends in the East.
Goldsmith, Oliver. Collected Works. Editor Friedman, Arthur, Clarendon, 1966, 5 vols.
2: 16n2, 473n1
26 June 1764: Oliver Goldsmith published his well-known...
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26 June 1764
Oliver Goldsmith
published his well-known History of England; it was well reviewed and remained a standard pedagogical text for generations.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
2: 1197
1765: The didactic History of Little Goody Two-Shoes...
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1765
The didactic History of Little Goody Two-Shoes was published by John Newbery: the most popular children's book of its period. It had fourteen reprints before 1814.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
75
Fergus, Jan. “The Gothic Moan”. Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) Conference, Quebec City, QC, 10 Oct. 1998.
Wilkes, Joanne. “’Without Impropriety’: Maria Jane Jewsbury on Jane Austen”. Persuasions, Vol.
13
, 1991, pp. 33-8. 15: 3, 25
Brownstein, Rachel M. “Review of Jane Austen by Deirdre LeFaye”. JASNA News: The Newsletter of the Jane Austen Society of North America, Vol.
15
, No. 3, 1999, p. 25. 25
Yonge, Charlotte, editor. A Storehouse of Stories. Macmillan, 1870–1872, 2 vols.
1: vi
27 March 1766: Oliver Goldsmith published his single, sentimental-humorous...
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27 March 1766
Oliver Goldsmith
published his single, sentimental-humorous novel, The Vicar of Wakefield.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
21 (1766): 439-41
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
27 March 2008
1767: Oliver Goldsmith selected and edited Poems...
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1767
Oliver Goldsmith
selected and edited Poems for Young Ladies, dividing it into three sections: Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining.
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.
29 January 1768: The earlier of Oliver Goldsmith's two comedies,...
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29 January 1768
The earlier of Oliver Goldsmith
's two comedies, The Good Natur'd Man, opened at Covent Garden Theatre
, where it ran long enough for three author's benefit nights. It was printed the same year.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
26 May 1770: Oliver Goldsmith published his best-known...
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26 May 1770
Oliver Goldsmith
published his best-known poem, The Deserted Village.
Goldsmith, Oliver. Collected Works. Editor Friedman, Arthur, Clarendon, 1966, 5 vols.
4: 278
15 March 1773: Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer...
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15 March 1773
Oliver Goldsmith
's She Stoops to Conquer (second of his two comedies) had its first performance.
Goldsmith, Oliver. Collected Works. Editor Friedman, Arthur, Clarendon, 1966, 5 vols.
5: 89
By 24 December 1881: Lillie Langtry became the first English society...
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By 24 December 1881
Lillie Langtry
became the first English society woman to appear professionally on the stage when she played Kate Hardcastle in Goldsmith
's She Stoops to Conquer at the Haymarket Theatre
, London.
Norback, Craig T., and Melvin Gray. The World’s Great News Photos 1840-1980. Crown Publishers, 1980.
23
Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor. The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 1983.
2
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2826 (1881): 861
1905: K. L. Montgomery, the pseudonym for the two...
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1905
K. L. Montgomery
, the pseudonym for the two sisters Kathleen and Letitia (who were distantly related to Oliver Goldsmith
), published the contemporary love story Love in the Lists: A Pension Comedy.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Texts
Goldsmith, Oliver. An History of England. J. Newbery, 1764.
Goldsmith, Oliver. Collected Works. Editor Friedman, Arthur, Clarendon, 1966, 5 vols.
Griffith, Elizabeth, and Oliver Goldsmith. Novellettes. Fielding and Walker, 1780.
Goldsmith, Oliver. Retaliation: a poem. 4th ed., G. Kearsly, at No 46, in Fleet-Street, 1774.
Goldsmith, Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer. F. Newbery, 1773.
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Deserted Village. W. Griffin, 1770.
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Good-Natur’d Man. W. Griffin, 1768.
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller. J. Newbery, 1764.
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. F. Newbery, 1766, 2 vols.