Laurence Sterne

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)...

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...

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...

The first volume's appearance was warmly welcomed by the Critical Review in a brief review which called the writer he:the only note of reproof concerned excessive imitation of Sterne . The...

Later this year the black Londoner Ignatius Sancho singled out Laurence Sterne and the humane author of Sir George Ellison as the only writers to have drawn a tear in favour of my miserable black...

The Bookman review was almost ecstatic about this happy and . . . brilliant book. Picking up Fleming's tongue-in-cheek manner here, it praised her for depths of philosophy. All readers would benefit, it said, whether...

The Critical Review situated this work in reference to two others: Sterne 's Sentimental Journey and Elizabeth Bonhote 's The Rambles of Mr. Frankly. (It apparently did not remember Eliza Haywood 's The Invisible...

Popular fiction of PA 's type is a target of parody in Henry Fielding 's Jonathan Wild.Sterne , too, may have had her work in mind in his burlesque story of the...

Virginia Woolf was angered by AM 's opinion that Jane Austen was a frump (and was even angrier that Meynell advised reading Sterne 's Tristram Shandy in an expurgated edition).

Like her mother and the family friend Catherine Hutton, EH was skilled at decorative arts. She fashioned a miniature medallion, depicting Sterne 's sentimental character Maria, out of Hutton's hair.

Travel pieces which DMC had published in the new English Illustrated Magazine became An Unsentimental Journey through Cornwall, published later that year (titled with reference to Laurence Sterne ).

It has been until recently a given of literary history that William Beckford had his half-sister in his sights in his two burlesques on women's novel-writing. The title-page of the first quotes Pope , thus...

Jewett wrote both diaries and letters from an early age, and was an avid reader. Reminiscing, she said she remembered thinking that if I could write just as Miss Thackeray did in her charming stories...

The pair lived a peripatetic existence, since Charles Mathews was working for Tate Wilkinson 's touring company. They went to York after their London visit, and spent some time in Hull. Their final lodging...