| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Elinor Glyn | After Elinor Sutherland (later EG
) turned fourteen she no longer had a governess. Eager for intellectual stimulation, she took it upon herself to read everything in her stepfather
's book collection, which had recently... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette | MML
was either the lover or the close platonic friend (in the style associated with the précieuses) of the well-known writer François, duc de La Rochefoucauld
. |
| Friends, Associates | Madeleine de Scudéry | Her friends and associates included novelist Marie Madeleine de Lafayette
, letter-writer Marie de Sévigné
, and maxim-writer La Rochefoucauld
. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Parker | EP
quotes La Rochefoucauld
to the effect that true love is that emotion lurking at the bottom of the heart, whose name we do not know. The story is set in France, and features... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | The title-page quotes La Rochefoucauld
. This novel features the Earl and Countess of Clifford's twins sons, Adolphus and Walsingham. Adolphus, who has great personal beauty, is spoiled by his mother, while Walsingham lives with... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Craik | Authors quoted on HC
's title-page include La Rochefoucauld
. Mary Robinson
's Walsingham is quoted in volume two and supplies the epigraph for volume three. Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, 2001, pp. 193-32. 228n47 |
| Author summary | Natalie Clifford Barney | Natalie Clifford Barney
, though American, is best known as a Paris salonnière. She specialized in memoirs and pensées, though she also produced poetry, drama, novels, essays, and dialogues. Writing primarily in French but also... |
| Textual Features | George Eliot | This essay begins from the seventeenth-century salonnière (who was also a maxim-writer in the manner of her friend the duc de La Rochefoucauld
, and may indeed have influenced him). It assesses the relative state... |
| Textual Production | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | It is dedicated to the Duchess of Gloucester
, a daughter of George III
who had acquired that title by marriage in 1816. Confusingly, the mother of LMH
's previous dedicee Lady Waldegrave had been... |
| Textual Production | Aphra Behn | Her publisher was J. Hindmarsh
. O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Garland, 1986. 217 Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997. 372-3, 512 |
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