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Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Memoirs of Fidelio and Harriot
Author: The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany
Author: Mrs. Delany (Mary)Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs Delany
Author: Mary DelanyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108038360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
The extensive and fascinating correspondence of Mary Delany (1700-88) who was famed for her botanical 'paper mosaics'.
Index to Book Reviews in England, 1749-1774
Author: Antonia ForsterPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809314065
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This index provides valuable information on the vast majority of reviews of poetry, fiction, and drama during the first 25 years of modern, formalized book reviewing in England. Forster introduces readers to the wealth of material in the two major review journals (Monthly Review and Critical Review), the two major magazines (Gentleman’s and London), and 11 other periodicals. She includes in her 3,023 entries information on format, price, and bookseller’s name taken from the books themselves. In her Introduction, Forster surveys some material concerning the reviewers’ public attitude to their self-appointed task to provide a background against which the reviewers’ literary judgments can be examined.
The Autobiography and Correspondence
Author: Mary DelanyThe Autobiography and Correspondance of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany
Author: Mary DelanyA catalogue of books
Author: Thomas and John EgertonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
A General Index to the Monthly Review: A catalogue of the books and pamphlets characterized, with the size and price of each article, and reference to the reviews wherein the account of them, with the booksellers' names, are inserted, to which is added a complete index of the names mentioned in the catalogue
Author: Samuel AyscoughPolly Honeycombe
Author: George ColmanThe Rivals and Polly Honeycombe
Author: Richard B. SheridanPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770483500
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Rivals and Polly Honeycombe revolve around young women who wish the world would conform to novelistic convention. Unlike most eighteenth-century heroines keen on novel reading, however, Lydia Languish and Polly Honeycombe are neither deluded nor in any real danger. Rather, they inhabit a world in which everyone is engaged in some sort of quixotic performance; the more appealing characters are just willing to admit it. Both farcical and wise, these plays teasingly celebrate the perennial appeal of fiction, while never letting us forget how much it relies upon the everyday rituals of performance. The introduction to this Broadview edition explores the interrelations between print and performance in the eighteenth century, including a detailed and well-illustrated account of what it was like to go to the theater. Appendices include material on the original casts, the often dubious reputation of novel reading and circulating libraries, Sheridan’s high-profile elopement with Elizabeth Linley (which made him a celebrity before he ever staged a word), and the narrative possibilities conjured up by setting The Rivals in the resort city of Bath.