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”) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Topics & Genres (definition of “Topic”) | Text of the Gesture | Gesture Type (The Terminology page on “”) | Text | Topics & Genres (definition of “Topic”) |
| Chapone, Hester (Mulso). A Letter to a New-Married Lady. 1777. | Letter | “aching void” | quote | Pennington, Lady Sarah (Moore). An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters. 1761? | |
| Cushing, Eliza Lanesford (Foster). “Saratoga; a Tale of the Revolution (vol. 2).” Saratoga. 1824. | Novel | “fair lily,” | quote | Wynne, John Huddlestone (editor). The Lady's Magazine. 1700 – 1847. | Gender-addressed |
| Haywood, Eliza (Fowler). “The Female Spectator (vol. 1).” The Female Spectator, 1745-46. 1745. | “Experience Vanity in our Youth is sought, And with Age purchas'd, is too dearly bought.” | quote | Haywood, Eliza (Fowler). The Female Spectator, 1745-46. 1745. | ||
| Haywood, Eliza (Fowler). “The Female Spectator (vol. 4).” The Female Spectator, 1745-46. 1745. | “the Inventor of the Brazen Bull” | quote | Haywood, Eliza (Fowler). “The Female Spectator (vol. 4).” The Female Spectator, 1745-46. 1745. | ||
| 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 | “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. | |