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”) |
| Bannerman, Anne. Poems. 1800. | Poetry | Theatre of Education | title | de Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité. Theatre of Education, Volume 2. 1781. | |
| Behn, Aphra (Johnson). Miscellany, Being a Collection of Poems by Several Hands. Together with Reflections on Morality, or Seneca Unmasked. 1685. | Miscellany | Senica Unmasqu'd | title | Behn, Aphra (Johnson). “Reflections on Morality; or, Seneca Unmasked.” Miscellany, Being a Collection of Poems by Several Hands. Together with Reflections on Morality, or Seneca Unmasked. 1685. | Moral instruction |
| Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. The Female Geniad. 1791. | Poetry | Miscellanies in Prose and Verse | title | Deverell, Mary. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. 1781. | |
| Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. The Female Geniad. 1791. | Poetry | The Parental Monitor | title | Bonhote, Elizabeth. The Parental Monitor. 1788. | |
| Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. The Female Geniad. 1791. | Poetry | Rambles of Fancy | title | Peacock, Lucy. Rambles of Fancy; or, Moral and Interesting Tales. 1786. | |
| Bowdler, Jane. Poems and Essays. 1786. | “L'Hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a la vertu,” | quote | La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de. Moral Reflections and Maxims. 1706. | Moral instruction | |
| Callcott, Lady Maria (Dundas). Letters on India. 1814. | Telemaque | title | Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe. Les Aventures de Télémaque. 1699. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “If we look around not only on the external, but on the moral and mental distinctions among mankind, and consider the ignorance, the miseries and the vices of others as a ground for our more abundant gratitude; what sort of feeling will be excited in certain persons by a sight and sense of those miseries, those vices, and that ignorance, of which their own influence, or example, or neglect, has been the cause?” | quote | More, Hannah. Christian Morals. 1813. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | Hannah More. | citation | More, Hannah. Christian Morals. 1813. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “The immense force of first impressions is on the side of the mother. In the moral field she is a privileged labourer. Ere the dews of morning begin to exhale, she is there. She breaks up a soil which the root of error and the thorns of prejudice have not pre-occupied. She plants germs whose fruit is for eternity.” | quote | Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley). Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse. 1815. | Moral instruction | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | Mrs. Sigourney. | citation | Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley). Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse. 1815. | Moral instruction | |
| Chapone, Hester (Mulso). A Letter to a New-Married Lady. 1777. | Letter | Father's Legacy. | title | Gregory, John. A Father's Legacy to His Daughters. 1784. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | Essays on the Principles of Morality | title | Dymond, Jonathan. Essays on the Principles of Morality. 1834. | |
| Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. 1833. | Political writing | “The supporters of the system will hereafter be regarded with the same public feelings, as he who was an advocate of the slave trade now is. How is it that legislators and public men are so indifferent to their fame? Who would now be willing that biography should record of him — ‘This man defended the slave trade’? The time will come when the record, — ‘This man opposed the abolition of slavery’, will occasion a great deduction from the public estimate of weight of character.” | quote | Dymond, Jonathan. Essays on the Principles of Morality. 1834. | |
| Chudleigh, Lady Mary (Lee). Essays upon Several Subjects in Prose and Verse. 1705. | Moral Essays on some of the most curious and significant English, Scotch, and Foreign Proverbs | advertisement | Palmer, Sanuel. Moral Essays on Some of the Most Curious and Significant English, Scotch, and Foreign Proverbs. 1710. | ||
| Chudleigh, Lady Mary (Lee). The Ladies Defence. 1701. | Gender commentary | Morals | title | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Morals. 1685. | |
| Deverell, Mary. Mary, Queen of Scots; An Historical Tragedy. 1792. | Miscellanies | title | Deverell, Mary. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. 1784. | ||
| Deverell, Mary. Mary, Queen of Scots; An Historical Tragedy. 1792. | Miscellanies, In Prose and Verse: | advertisement | Deverell, Mary. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. 1784. | ||
| Finch, Anne (Kingsmill), Countess of Winchilsea. “Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions.” Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions and Aristomenes. 1713. | Poetry | “A Miller and his Son (the Father old, | quote | La Fontaine, Jean de. Les Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers, t. II. 1678. | Moral instruction |
| Haywood, Eliza (Fowler). “The Female Spectator (vol. 2).” The Female Spectator, 1745-46. 1745. | L'Abbê de Bellegarde. | citation | Morvan, Jean Baptiste, L’Abbe de Bellegard. Reflexions Upon Ridicule. 1739. | ||
| Haywood, Eliza (Fowler). “The Female Spectator (vol. 2).” The Female Spectator, 1745-46. 1745. | “Vivez toujours comme si vous etiez Vieux, afin que vous ne vous repentiez jamais d'avoir été jeune.” | quote | Morvan, Jean Baptiste, L’Abbe de Bellegard. Reflexions Upon Ridicule. 1739. | ||
| Haywood, Eliza (Fowler). “The Female Spectator (vol. 3).” The Female Spectator, 1745-46. 1745. | “N'ayez de l' Attachement de l' Amour pour le Monde, qu'a Proportion du Tems que vous y devez être. Celuy qui fait Voyage, ne s'arrête pas dans la premiere belle Ville qu'il trouve sur sa route, il sçait qu'il doit passer outre et aller plus loin.” | quote | Morvan, Jean Baptiste, L’Abbe de Bellegard. Reflexions Upon Ridicule. 1739. | ||
| Haywood, Eliza (Fowler). “The Female Spectator (vol. 3).” The Female Spectator, 1745-46. 1745. | “Have no greater Attachment or Love for the World, than in Proportion to the Time you are to be in it. He who takes a Journey stops not at the first fine City he finds in his Way; for he knows he must pass through it, and go farther.” | quote | Morvan, Jean Baptiste, L’Abbe de Bellegard. Reflexions Upon Ridicule. 1739. | ||
| Haywood, Eliza (Fowler). “The Female Spectator (vol. 4).” The Female Spectator, 1745-46. 1745. | “Nothing” | quote | Morvan, Jean Baptiste, L’Abbe de Bellegard. Reflexions Upon Ridicule. 1739. | ||
| Haywood, Eliza (Fowler). “The Female Spectator (vol. 4).” The Female Spectator, 1745-46. 1745. | “more shews the Quickness of the Genius than a genteel Raillery; yet if it be not directed with great Judgment, it degenerates into Grossness, and turns to the Ridicule, not so much indeed on the Person levelled at in it, as on him that practises it.” | quote | Morvan, Jean Baptiste, L’Abbe de Bellegard. Reflexions Upon Ridicule. 1739. | ||
| Haywood, Eliza (Fowler). “The Female Spectator (vol. 4).” The Female Spectator, 1745-46. 1745. | “When you would give a loose to Pleasantry of this Sort, the Character of the Person you would railly, as well as the Topic for Raillery, ought to be well consulted:—To take this Liberty with one who is your Superior is Insolence:—With one too much beneath you, demeans yourself:—With Persons far advanced in Years, or with those of a melancholy Constitution, it is absurd; and with Ladies, a Freedom which savours too much of Indecency. As your Sentiments are gay, to railly well, your Expressions must be so too, yet accompanied with a certain Softness, which will render what you say tickling, not wounding to the Heart. It is a happy Talent, to know how to railly in such a Manner, as while you divert the Company with affecting a Severity on some particular Action or Humour of any one, what has the Appearance of a Sarcasm at first hearing, shall be found, when considered, the highest Praise could be given. Monsieur de Saintonge, excels this way as much as any Man I know.—He was one Day in Company with the Count de Bussy, and some others, when on some Occasion that Nobleman said, he wondered any body could be covetous.―― ‘How, my Lord,’ cried Saintonge immediately, ‘can you be surprized at that in others, when you are so notoriously guilty of it yourself?――Is not your Lordship the most covetous Man in the World, who, not content with all the fine Estates you have in France, are continually purchasing more in the Blue Plains?――Do not you lend your Money at more than Cent. per Cent. Interest above, and are not your Levees every Day crowded with the Lame and the Blind, and all kind of miserable People for that Purpose?’ This was a Kind of Raillery which delighted all that heard it, and was the greatest Compliment could be paid to the Count, who, every one knows, is an almost inimitable Pattern of Charity and Beneficence. But few there are who have a Genius and happy Turn of Thought and Expression adapted to give all the Pleasures of Raillery, and at the same Time avoid any of its Inconveniences; and even those who have should take care not to use it too frequently, lest they should be suspected as incapable of being serious.” | quote | Morvan, Jean Baptiste, L’Abbe de Bellegard. Reflexions Upon Ridicule. 1739. | ||
| Lennox, Charlotte (Ramsay). The Lady’s Museum, 1760-61. | ‘Virtue would not go so far, if pride did not bear her company’ | adaptation | La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de. Moral Reflections and Maxims. 1706. | Moral instruction | |
| Murray, Judith (Sargent). The Gleaner. 1798. | “He was much in the right, whoever he was, that first called anger a short madness; for they have both of them the same symptoms; and there is so wonderful a resemblance between the transports of choler and those of frenzy, that it is a hard matter to know the one from the other. A bold, fierce and threatening countenance, as pale as ashes, and in the same moment as red as blood; a glaring eye, a wrinkled brow, violent motions, the hands restless and perpetually in action, wringing and menacing, snapping of the joints, stamping with the feet, the hair starting, trembling lips, a forced voice; the speech false and broken, deep and frequent sighs, and ghastly looks; the veins swell, the heart pants, the knees knock; with a hundred dismal accidents that are common to both distempers. Neither is anger, only a bare resemblance of madness, but many times an irrecoverable transition into the thing itself. How many persons have we known, read, and heard of, that have lost their wits in a passion, and never came to themselves again? It is therefore to be avoided not only for moderation sake, but also for health. Now, if the outward appearance of anger be hideous, how deformed must that mind be that is harassed with it? for it leaves no place either for counsel or friendship, honesty or good manners; no place either for the exercise of reason, or for the offices of life. If I were to describe it, I would draw a tyger bathed in blood; sharp set, and ready to take a leap at its prey; or dress it up as the poets represent the furies, with whips, snakes and flames. It should likewise be sour, livid, full of scars, and wallowing in gore, raging up and down, destroying, grinning, bellowing, and pursuing; sick of all other things, and most of all of itself. It turns beauty into deformity, and the calmest counsels into fierceness: It disorders our very garments, and fills the mind with horror. How abominable then is it in the soul! Is not he a mad-man who hath lost the government of himself, and is tossed hither and thither by his fury, as by a tempest; the executioner of his own revenge, both with his heart and hand; and the murderer of his nearest friends? The smallest matter moves it and makes us unsociable and inaccessible. It does all things by violence, as well upon itself as others; and it is, in short, the master of all passions.” | quote | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Morals. 1685. | ||
| Pennington, Lady Sarah (Moore). An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters. 1761? | Mason on Self Knowledge | citation | Mason, John M. Self-Knowledge: A Treatise. 1760. | ||
| Pennington, Lady Sarah (Moore). An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters. 1761? | Morals | title | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Morals. 1685. | ||
| Pennington, Lady Sarah (Moore). An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters. 1761? | Fables for the Female Sex | title | Moore, Edward. Fables for the Female Sex. 1749. | Moral instruction | |
| Pennington, Lady Sarah (Moore). An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters. 1761? | “Let every Man study his Prayers, and read his Duty in his Petitions” | quote | Taylor, Jeremy. The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. 1650. | ||
| Pennington, Lady Sarah (Moore). An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters. 1761? | Bp. Taylor | advertisement | Taylor, Jeremy. The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. 1650. | ||
| Philips, Katherine (Fowler). Letters From Orinda to Poliarchus. 1705. | Novel | Seneca's Morals, by Sir Roger L'Estrange. Price 5 s. | advertisement | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. “Seneca's Morals by Way of Abstract.” Morals. 1685. | |
| R., M. The Mother’s Counsel; or, Live Within Compass. 1630. | “Beautie is a woman's golden Crowne.” | quote | R., M. The Mother’s Counsel; or, Live Within Compass. 1630. | ||
| Robinson, Mary (Darby). The Poetical Works of the Late Mrs. Mary Robinson. 1806. | Poetry | Odes | title | Whitehouse, John. Odes Moral and Descriptive. 1794. | |
| Robinson, Mary (Darby). The Poetical Works of the Late Mrs. Mary Robinson. 1806. | Poetry | Odes | title | Whitehouse, John. Odes Moral and Descriptive. 1794. | |
| Robinson, Mary (Darby). The Poetical Works of the Late Mrs. Mary Robinson. 1806. | Poetry | “Absence lessens small passions, and increases great ones; as the wind extinguishes tapers, and kindles fires.” | quote | La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de. Moral Reflections and Maxims. 1706. | Moral instruction |
| Robinson, Mary (Darby). The Poetical Works of the Late Mrs. Mary Robinson. 1806. | Poetry | Moral Maxims | title | La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de. Moral Reflections and Maxims. 1706. | Moral instruction |
| Rowe, Elizabeth (Singer). Friendship in Death. 1728. | Moral Essays | title | Nicole, Pierre. Essais de Morale. 1687. | Moral instruction | |
| Rowe, Elizabeth (Singer). Friendship in Death. 1728. | Moral Essays | title | Nicole, Pierre. Essais de Morale. 1687. | Moral instruction | |
| Rowe, Elizabeth (Singer). Friendship in Death. 1728. | The Characters or the Manners of the present Age | advertisement | de La Bruyère, Jean. “The Characters or the Manners of the Present Age.” The Works of Monsieur de la Bruyere. 1723. | ||
| Rowe, Elizabeth (Singer). Poems on Several Occasions. 1696. | Poetry | A Treatise of Fornication | advertisement | Barlow, William. A Treatise of Fornication. 1690. | |
| Rowe, Elizabeth (Singer). Poems on Several Occasions. 1696. | Poetry | Early Religion | advertisement | Rogers, Timothy. Early Religion; or, A Discourse of the Duty and Interest of Youth. 1691. | |
| Scott, Mary. The Female Advocate. 1774. | Gender commentary | Letters Religious and Moral, designed particularly for the Entertainment of young Persons | advertisement | Turner, Daniel. Letters: Religious and Moral, Designed Particularly for the Entertainment of Young Persons. 1766. | |
| Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley). Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since. 1824. | “How doth the little busy bee,” | quote | Watts, Isaac. “Song XX: Against Idleness and Mischief.” Divine & Moral Songs, Attempted in Easy Language. 1799. | ||
| Smith, Charlotte (Turner). Beachy Head: With Other Poems. 1807. | Poetry | Fables of La Fontaine | title | La Fontaine, Jean de. Fables of La Fontaine. 1841. | Moral instruction |
| Smith, Charlotte (Turner). Beachy Head: With Other Poems. 1807. | Poetry | “Quand on eut bien considéré L'interêt du public, celui de la patrie, Le résultat enfin de la suprême cour Fut, de condamner la Folie A servir de guide à l'Amour.” | quote | La Fontaine, Jean de. Fables of La Fontaine. 1841. | Moral instruction |
| Smith, Charlotte (Turner). Desmond. 1792. | Novel | ‘Les grands noms abaissent au lieu d'élever, ceux qui ne savent pas les soutenir.’ | quote | La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de. Moral Reflections and Maxims. 1706. | Moral instruction |
| Smith, Charlotte (Turner). Desmond. 1792. | Novel | “Great names degrade, instead of raising, those who know not how to support them.” | quote | La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de. Moral Reflections and Maxims. 1706. | Moral instruction |