Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
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Education | Lady Louisa Stuart | LLS
grew up under her mother's eye, and was educated through both reading and social contact. She later remembered reading Henry Mackenzie
's The Man of Feeling at fourteen and fearing she might not cry... |
Education | Lady Arbella Stuart | LAS
had a varied upbringing, living in the households of Bess of Hardwick, Mary Queen of Scots, and her aunt and uncle Mary and Gilbert Talbot. Before she was eight she was betrothed for the... |
Education | Clara Reeve | As well as saying that her father had taught her all she knew, CR
also later complained to a friend that at an age when most children were still illiterate, she had gaped and yawned... |
Education | Katherine Parr | KP
's mother taught her reading and writing at the early age of three or four. A tutor taught her Latin and possibly French when she was only about seven. By the time she was... |
Education | Pearl S. Buck | Mr Kung despised fiction and the Sydenstricker library contained only the supposedly factual Plutarch
's Lives and Foxe
's Book of Martyrs, but Pearl read fiction avidly in both Chinese and English, devouring Shakespeare |
Education | Elizabeth Inchbald | |
Education | Annie Keary | Annie was an eager reader, and in a comparative dearth of children's books she read the educationalist Rollin
and the ancient historian Plutarch
at an early age. It is probably Charles Rollin who is meant... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Jane Vardill | AJV
translates from Sappho
, Anacreon
, Alcæus
, Theocritus
, Horace
, and more recent poets: Petrarch
and Camoens
. She includes several charity poems: the one already published in aid of the Refuge for the Destitute |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Renault | MR
based her book on the outline from Plutarch
's Life of Theseus. However, the novel also enters into scholarly debates about the origins of Mycenaean culture by portraying the replacement of a matriarchal... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume provides lavish notes to explain its sometimes quite obscure historical figures and settings, and cites a wide range of authors including Plutarch
, Shakespeare
, Milton
, and Germaine de Staël
. FH |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Delany | Janice Thaddeus
discusses the prerogative MD
assumed in giving names of her own invention to people and places. Her uncle Lansdowne was Alcander (a violent man mentioned in Plutarch
's Lives, who was forgiven... |
Literary responses | Sappho | Sappho was praised by many of the great names in the classical world: Socrates
, Lucian
, Plutarch
, Aristotle
(who, however, wrote, the Mytileans honored Sappho even though she was a woman), qtd. in Sappho, and Andrew R. Burn. Lyrics in the Original Greek. Translator Barnstone, Willis, New York University Press, 1965. 167 |
Literary responses | Mary Butts | The novel's success was slightly diminished by comparisons drawn between it and Jack Lindsay
's Last Days With Cleopatra, which appeared just a few weeks before it. Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company, 1998. 380 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
seems to have influenced this work as a whole, in persuading Lyttelton
to reshape it into dialogue from the epistolary form (letters from the dead to the living). Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923, 2 vols. 2: 179 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Helme | EH
adapted a classic text (the actual translation was not her own): Plutarch
's Lives Abridged, in a form Calculated for the Instruction of Youth Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 2nd ser. 13 (1794): 391 |
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