The quotations, citations, and other references made by women writers in the WWO collection.
| Source Text(definition of “Source text”) | Gesture(definition of “Intertextual gesture”) | Referenced Work(definition of “Referenced work”) | |||
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| Text | Topics & Genres (definition of “Topic”) | Text of the Gesture | Gesture Type (The Terminology page on “”) | Text | Topics & Genres (definition of “Topic”) |
| Barbauld, Anna Laetitia (Aikin). The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld. | Miscellany | “to impress devotional feelings as early as possible on the infant mind,” | quote | Barbauld, Anna Laetitia (Aikin). Hymns in Prose for Children. 1781. | |
| Barbauld, Anna Laetitia (Aikin). The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld. | Miscellany | “to impress them, by connecting religion with a variety of sensible objects, with all that he sees, all he hears, all that affects his young mind with wonder or delight; and thus, by deep, strong and permanent associations, to lay the best foundation for practical devotion in future life.” | quote | Barbauld, Anna Laetitia (Aikin). Hymns in Prose for Children. 1781. | |
| Bullard, Anne Tuttle (Jones). The Reformation. | “Being mother of God, he cannot refuse her request; being our mother, she cannot deny our intercession when we have recourse to her—our necessities urge her—the prayers we offer her for our salvation bring us all that we desire—never any person invoked the mother of mercies in his necessities, who has not been sensible of the effects of her assistance.” | quote | Catholic School Book. | ||
| Finch, B. Sonnets and Other Poems. 1805. | Poetry | “A woman ought never to suffer a man to add a single word to her writings; if she does, the man she consults, be he who he may, will always pass for the original inventor, and she will be accused of putting her name to the works of others,” | quote | de Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité. Tales of the Castle; or, Stories of Instruction and Delight. 1785. | |
| Green, Sarah. Romance Readers and Romance Writers: A Satirical Novel. 1810. | Novel | “Fancy, whose delusions vain Sport themselves with human brain; Rival thou of Nature's power, Cans't, from thy exhaustless store, Bid a tide of sorrow flow, And whelm the soul in deepest woe; Or, in the twinkling of an eye, Raise it to mirth and jollity!” | quote | Johnson, Richard. Poetical Blossoms. 1793. | |
| Green, Sarah. Romance Readers and Romance Writers: A Satirical Novel. 1810. | Novel | “Say, what can ease thy present grief, Can former joys afford relief? Those former joys, remember'd still, The more augment the recent ill: What woes from mortal ills accrue! And what from natural ensue! Disease and casualty attend Our footsteps, to the journey's end.” | quote | Johnson, Richard. Poetical Blossoms. 1793. | |
| Leonard, Eliza Lucy. The Miller and His Golden Dream. 1822. | ‘'Tis lucky that I have my health, Since this poor mill is all my wealth.’ | quote | Leonard, Eliza Lucy. The Miller and His Golden Dream. 1822. | ||
| Leonard, Eliza Lucy. The Miller and His Golden Dream. 1822. | “At eve before the cottage door, They talk'd the wondrous story o'er;” | quote | Leonard, Eliza Lucy. The Miller and His Golden Dream. 1822. | ||
| Leonard, Eliza Lucy. The Miller and His Golden Dream. 1822. | “My pretty Window that commands Those meadows green and wooded lands.” | quote | Leonard, Eliza Lucy. The Miller and His Golden Dream. 1822. | ||
| Leonard, Eliza Lucy. The Miller and His Golden Dream. 1822. | ‘One foot a little in advance, With nose and lip contemptuous curl'd, That said, “A fig for all the world!”’ | quote | Leonard, Eliza Lucy. The Miller and His Golden Dream. 1822. | ||
| Leonard, Eliza Lucy. The Miller and His Golden Dream. 1822. | ‘—ye powers! what do I see?—’ | quote | Leonard, Eliza Lucy. The Miller and His Golden Dream. 1822. | ||
| Moise, Penina. Fancy’s Sketch Book. 1833. | “This flower being adopted by the Seventh Louis for the engraving of his Coat of Arms, and his name being contracted into Luce, it was then called the fleur de Luce, now, fleur de Lys.” | quote | Pluche, Noël Antoine. Le Spectacle de la Nature. 1763. | ||
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “Integrity, or the observance of justice, then, is essential to private and public happiness. It is the fundamental principle in all the numerous concerns of society. Every deviation from justice and rectitude among men, is a violation of the divine commands.” | quote | Webster, Noah. A Manual of Useful Studies. 1839. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “The being who best knows for what end we were placed here, has scattered in our path something beside roses.” | quote | Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley). The Girl's Reading Book of Prose and Poetry. 1843. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “Time was, when the temple of science was barred against the foot of woman. Heathen tyranny held her in vassalage, and Mahometan prejudice pronounced her without a soul. Now, from the sanctuary which knowledge and wisdom have consecrated, and from whence she was so long excluded, the interdict is taken away. How does she prize the gift? Does she press to gain a stand at the temple of knowledge, or will she clothe her brow in vanity, and be satisfied with ignorance. May we improve the influence which is now given us, and seek for ‘glory and immortality beyond the grave.’” | quote | Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley). The Girl's Reading Book of Prose and Poetry. 1843. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “which is daunted by no difficulty, and without which genius avails little.” | quote | Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley). The Boy's Reading Book of Prose and Poetry. 1839. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | ‘industry is happiness, and idleness is an offence both to nature and to her God.’” | quote | Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley). The Boy's Reading Book of Prose and Poetry. 1839. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “I have seen a youth in the pride of his days; his cheeks glowed with beauty; his limbs were full of activity; he leaped; he walked; he ran; he rejoiced in that he was more excellent than those. I returned: he lay cold and stiff on the bare ground; his feet could no longer move, nor his hands stretch themselves out; his life was departed from him; and the breath out of his nostrils. Therefore do I weep because Death is in the world; the spoiler is among the works of God; all that is made must be destroyed; all that is born must die.” | quote | Barbauld, Anna Laetitia (Aikin). Hymns in Prose for Children. 1781. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “Tree, why art thou always sad and drooping? Am I not kind unto thee? Do not the showers visit thee, and sink deep to refresh thy root? Hast thou sorrow at thy heart?” | quote | Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley). The Girl's Reading Book of Prose and Poetry. 1843. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “but it answered not. And as it grew on, it drooped lower and lower; for it was a weeping willow.” | quote | Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley). The Girl's Reading Book of Prose and Poetry. 1843. | |
| Plato, Ann. Essays. 1841. | Essay | “A life so blameless, a trust so firm in God, a mind so conversant with a future and better world, seemed to have divested death of terror. He came as a messenger to conduct her to that state of purity and bliss for which she had been preparing.” | quote | Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley). The Girl's Reading Book of Prose and Poetry. 1843. | |
| Wakefield, Priscilla (Bell). Mental Improvement. 1794. | Other nonfiction | “Negro woman, who sittest pining in captivity, and weepest over thy sick child, though no one seeth thee, God seeth thee; though no one pitieth thee, God pitieth thee. Raise thy voice, forlorn, and abandoned one; call upon him from amidst thy bonds, for assuredly he will hear thee.” | quote | Barbauld, Anna Laetitia (Aikin). Hymns in Prose for Children. 1781. | |
| Williams, Catherine Read (Arnold). The Neutral French. 1841. | Novel | “French settlement on the St. Lawrence as early as the year 1524 by James Cartin, and that settlements were soon after formed in Canada and Nova Scotia.” | quote | Goodrich, Samuel Griswold. The Child's Book of American Geography. 1831. | |