...Catherine Craft-Fairchild Maria Edgeworth, in her novel Harrington (1817), was one of the first proponents of religious and cultural tolerance of the small but growing Jewish population in Great Britain. Edgeworth suggested that the best method of counteracting the irrational biases reinforced...

...Elizabeth King Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria can be considered both gothic and anti‐gothic, in that it both evokes and subverts gothic imagery in order to emphasize women's oppression. Throughout the novel, Wollstonecraft employs gothic iconography while simultaneously dismissing gothic...

... evidence. Both works, the Memoirs of an Oxford Scholar (1756) and Genuine Memoirs of Maria Brown (1766), are nevertheless indebted to Cleland’s work. This article starts by examining the canny, fraudulent marketing of these eighteenth-century erotic novels after Fanny Hill ’s revival, including...

... reading public. The final chapter traces the representation of Sterne’s Maria from 1773 to 1888. Of all Sterne’s characters, Maria is the one to attain an existence indepen- dent of the written text, in part, as Gerard notes, because she appears in both novels. In these years, she became an icon...

... Nancy Rousseau Maria m. = Marriage Family Tree 1722 – 94 1747 – 1819...

...). Then, on 26 August 1741, the governess of the Austrian Netherlands, Maria-Elisabeth, died quite unexpectedly. Maria-Theresia appointed prince Charles-Alexandre de Lorraine and his wife Maria-Anna (Maria- Theresia’s sister) as her representatives in the Netherlands. But because...

... as politically and aes- thetically diverse as Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Anna Seward, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams, Mary Shelley, and Felicia Hemans actively identified and capitalized on the joint potential of imaginative writing and the field of natural history in order to posit their claims as original...

... of fundamental political and economic reforms sought to deal with the problem of defin- ing citizenship and the rights of property held by foreigners. These reforms that Maria Theresa of Austria and Joseph II set in motion attempted to dis- mantle the traditional approach embodied in the conduct...

... in the series. John Bell was nothing if not a savvy barometer of consumer demand. Nevertheless, the preponderance of media demand over preexisting popularity in shaping an image-­driven celebrity culture is clearly visible in Bell’s choices of players for his por- traits. Take the case of Maria Hunter...

... the Turks, created the fame of John III Sobieski, King of Poland and grandfather to a princess who later mar- ried James Stuart, pretender to the English throne. I want first to examine the story of Maria Clementina Sobieska (1702–35) and the uses to which it was put by propagandists of the Jacobite...

... Haslinger, Küche und Tafelkultur am kaiserlichen Hofe zu Wien: Zur Geschichte von Hofküche, Zuckerbäckerei, und Hofsilber-, und Tafelkammer (Bern: Benteli, 1993), 51. 28. Anna Coreth, Pietas Austriaca (West Lafayette: Purdue Univ., 2004), 55–56, and Michael Yonan, Empress Maria Theresa...

... Emmeline (1784), Agnes Maria Bennett’s The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors (1797), Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda (1801), as well as numerous anonymous novels published at the turn of the century, such as Fatherless Fanny (1811) — all featuring children lost and then recovered by their families.7...

..., by staging a series of conversions in this novel — from pagan- ism, to Judaism, to Christianity — O’Keeffe emphasizes the instability of any form of religious conversion. In many ways, Zenobia can be seen as a precursor to Maria Edge- worth’s Harrington (1817), a contemporaneous historical novel...

... Burney 50 5.0.0 R Burney 51 5.0.0 M r Travers 52 5.0.0 D r Holland 53 5.0.0 Mrs Cartwright 54 10.0.0 M rs Reed 10.0.0 Maria Butcher 10.0.0 M.C. Burney 55 Ring 5.0.0 £585.0.0 [Signed] Alfred Turner Executor Mr Thomson House Rent...

... seems to have inœuenced her to write like one. Cathy Rex has argued that the women in the Canadian episodes of Bleeck- er s novel, Maria Kittle, participate in a uniquely female- centered nation within a larger nation. 17 As a poet, Bleecker also behaves as if somehow participating in the new nation...

... 36     3 7 is. Wilton-­Ely surveys Piranesi as designer of architecture (his church, Santa Maria del Priorato on the Aventine Hill in Rome, his plans for San Giovanni in Laterano), printmaker (architectural fantasies, and views...

... Moment in A Sentimental Journey” on Yorick’s reference to Dido in Versailles; Thomas Keymer’s “Marvell, Thomas Hollis, and Sterne’s Maria”; and W. B. Gerard’s “Benevolent Vision” on illustrations of Yorick’s encounter with Maria of Moulines, to name just a few.2 The citations might be shortened...

... it. While Charles Lamb was disappointed that this poem was not the sponta- neous overflow of powerful feelings, but in fact the product of meticulous cor- rection and rewriting, Maria Edgeworth recognized the value of this record as an editorial compliment to the printed poem. What both believed they saw...

... Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1998. Pp. 261. $39.95. ISBN 0-814327222 Barbara Zonitch. Familiar Violence: Gender and Social Upheaval in the Novels of Frances Burney. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997. Pp...

.... CJL5, 305. Miss Macenton is Burney s misspelling of the name of Maria Mackenthun. See note 36 below. 6. MCP, 183. 7. The Treasurer s Account Book for the period 1 January 1777 to 1 January 1793, Royal Archives, GEO/MAIN/36836 36948, volume 2 of a larger set, has been scanned and can be seen online...