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”) |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “Where Cancer reddens in the solar blaze,” | quote | Thomson, James. The Seasons. 1730. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “Peterels soar.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “The floating fragments.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “In the course of the last twenty-four hours, we passed through several fields of broken ice; they were in general narrow, but of considerable extent. In one part the pieces of ice were so close, that the ship had much difficulty to thread them.” | quote | Cook, James. A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. 1777. | Travel writing |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “Furling the iron sails.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “Our sails and rigging were so frozen, that they seemed plates of iron.” | quote | Cook, James. A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. 1777. | Travel writing |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “And the vast ruin.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “Till Nature, &c.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “After running four leagues this course, with the ice on our starboard side, we found ourselves quite embay'd, the ice extending from north-north-east, round by the west and south, to east, in one compact body; the weather was tolerably clear, yet we could see no end to it.” | quote | Cook, James. A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. 1777. | Travel writing |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “The olive-branch.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “To carry a green branch in the hand on landing, is a pacific signal, universally understood by all the islanders in the South Seas.” | quote | Cook, James. A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. 1777. | Travel writing |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “And name exchang'd.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “His living store.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “Walls of coral.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “And sleepless Patience.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “We had now passed several months with a man constantly in the chains heaving the lead.” | quote | Referenced work not found. | |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “A rock-built temple.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “On one part of this isle there was a solitary rock, rising on the coast with arched cavities, like a majestic temple.” | quote | Referenced work not found. | |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “First gentle Flora.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “The Flora of one of these islands contain'd thirty new plants.” | quote | Flora Anglica. | |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “Vegetable silk.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “A playful Kangroo.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “Beauteous Pois.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “The poi-bird, common in those countries, has feathers of a fine mazarine blue, except those of the neck, which are of a beautiful silver grey; and two or three short white ones, which are in the pinion- joint of the wing. Under its throat hang two little tufts of curled white feathers, called its poies, which, being the Otaheitean word for ear-rings, occasioned our giving that name to the bird; which is not more remarkable for the beauty of its plumage, than for the exquisite melody of its note.” | quote | Cook, James. A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. 1777. | Travel writing |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “A Giant-bat.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “Rolls the white surf.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “As we passed this island, many of its trees had an unusual appearance, and the richness of the vegetation much invited our naturalists to land, but their earnest wishes were in vain, from the dangerous reefs and the violence of the surfs.” | quote | Referenced work not found. | |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “Chasten'd love.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “Morai.” | quote | Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry |
| Seward, Anna. Elegy on Captain Cook. 1780. | Poetry | “Inspiration breathes around.” | quote | Gray, Thomas. “The Progress of Poesy; A Pindaric Ode.” Poems by Mr. Gray. 1768. | Poetry |