Laurence Sterne

Each volume has an introductory chapter, addressing the reader in the manner of, and with some images borrowed from, Henry Fielding or Laurence Sterne (the latter, indeed, is mentioned by name). MM hopes her reader...

Mrs Dubois makes a second marriage to a widower, Mr Ravenshaw. Something in their Minds attracted them to each other. They thought it was Friendship, and called it so; but their Friends termed it Love...

The chapter on Domestic Servants opens by noting archly the conviction that the race of good servants has died out, at least in England, although they do order these things better in France

The heroine's father is a Hamburg merchant (which perhaps explains the book's Hamburg subscribers). She is born in Barbados (where her mother, on arrival, would have been perfectly happy, but for the black servants)...

Another juvenile poem, the Inscription Written on an Hermitage in one of the Islands of the West-Indies, composed at sixteen, is a celebration of female friendship. In the hermitage the author and her friend...

Henry Dellmore remains throughout his picaresque adventures innocent, if not chaste. After being (it seems) seduced by the rector's daughter he suffers agonies of guilt because he does not feel he can bring himself to...

Her ordinary working-class family here (quite the same as everyone else) consists of Henry and Lorna Tripp, their three children and their elders. She makes Angela, the character most like herself, a purposely...

WM heads her essay with a quotation from Laurence Sterne 's Tristram Shandy: Methinks, brother, replied my father, you might, at least, know so much as the right end of a woman from the...

In the central plot a number of lives are ruined by the fact that a generation ago an upper-class rake, James Neville, has fathered various children by different women, most of them illegitimate, who have...

In addition to its over-riding themes of colonialism and the marriage market, this novel, set in early British Calcutta (and incorporating a good deal of travel book material), is much concerned with literature and with...

The volume includes poems of natural description, of meditation, and of political comment. FON expresses delight at the election victory on 9 August 1802 (in John Wilkes's old constituency of Middlesex) of Sir Francis Burdett

The hero of this episodic novel, a happily married curate with three children to bring up on £80 a year, and repining on their behalf at his poverty, takes Sentimental Rambles in Hyde...

The quotations that head her chapters range through more than a dozen well-known male names from Shakespeare through Racine in French, Prior and Pope to Sterne and Burke , plus a couple of unidentified women....

The day was spent travelling from Glasgow to Inveraray. The writer throws in quotations and allusions (Edward Young , the Bible, Macpherson 's Ossian and Homer 's Odyssey, Sterne and Smollett

Tomkins (whose words open the novel in very much the way that Sterne 's narrator opens A Sentimental Journey) is in search of a wife, but early rules out the heroine from consideration. She...