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”) |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “God is thy head, thou mine;” | quote | Milton, John. Paradise Lost. 1667. | Poetry | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “He for God only, she for God in him.” | quote | Milton, John. Paradise Lost. 1667. | Poetry | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | The Athenæum | title | [various authors] (editor). The Athenaeum. 1828 – 1921. | Uncategorized periodical | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | The Monthly Magazine | title | Aikin, John (editor). The Monthly Magazine; or, British Register. 1796-02 – 1843. | Uncategorized periodical | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “By that ennobled shade,” | quote | Ovid. Fastorum Libri Sex. 0008. | ||
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “By this pure blood, and by this reeking blade,” | quote | Ovid. Fastorum Libri Sex. 0008. | ||
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “Vengeance I swear!” | quote | Ovid. Fastorum Libri Sex. 0008. | ||
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “This monument the Spoiler left behind.” | quote | Unlikely to be published elsewhere. | ||
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “Appeal,” | quote | Roland, Madame (Marie-Jeanne). L'Appel de Madame Roland. 1795. | Autobiography | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “Vitaï lampada tradunt.” | quote | Lucretius. The Nature of Things: A Didactic Poem. 1805. | Poetry | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | Lucretius. | citation | Lucretius. The Nature of Things: A Didactic Poem. 1805. | Poetry | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “The courtship” | quote | Collins, David. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, from Its First Settlement in January 1788, to August 1801. 1804. | ||
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “consists in watching the lady's retirement, and then knocking her down with repeated blows of a club or wooden sword; after which the truly matrimonial victim is led streaming with blood to her future husband's party, where a scene ensues too shocking to relate.” | quote | Collins, David. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, from Its First Settlement in January 1788, to August 1801. 1804. | ||
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | History of the Colony in New Holland | title | Collins, David. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, from Its First Settlement in January 1788, to August 1801. 1804. | ||
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “In all unpolished nations, it is true, the functions in domestic economy which fall naturally to the share of the women, are so many, that they are subjected to hard labour, and must bear more than their full portion of the common burden. But in America their condition is so peculiarly grievous, and their depression so complete, that servitude is a name too mild to describe their wretched state. A wife, amongst most tribes, is no better than a beast of burden, destined to every office of labour and fatigue. While the men loiter out the day in sloth, or spend it in amusement, the women are condemned to incessant toil. Tasks are imposed upon them without pity, and services are received without complacency or gratitude.” | quote | Robertson, William. The History of America. 1783. | History | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “Every circumstance reminds the women of this mortifying inferiority. They must approach their lords with reverence, they must regard them as more exalted beings, and are not permitted to eat in their presence.” | quote | Robertson, William. The History of America. 1783. | History | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “There are many districts in America where this dominion is so grievous, and so sensibly felt, that some women, in a wild emotion of maternal tenderness, have destroyed their female children in their infancy, in order to deliver them from that intolerable bondage to which they knew they were doomed.” | quote | Robertson, William. The History of America. 1783. | History | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | History of America | title | Robertson, William. The History of America. 1783. | History | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | Transactions of the Missionary Society | title | London Missionary Society. Transactions of the Missionary Society. 1804. | ||
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “The situation of these unhappy victims is described,” | quote | Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 1776. | History | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “in the verses of a Chinese princess, who laments that she had been condemned by her parents to a distant exile, under a barbarian husband; who complains that sour milk was her only drink, raw flesh her only food, a tent her only palace; and who expresses, in a strain of pathetic simplicity, the natural wish that she were transformed into a bird, to fly back to her dear country, the object of her tender and perpetual regret.” | quote | Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 1776. | History | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | Decline and Fall | title | Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 1776. | History | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “As when a woman weeps Her husband fall'n in battle for her sake, And for his children's sake, before the gate Of his own city; sinking to his side She close infolds him with a last embrace, And gazing on him as he pants and dies, Shrieks at the sight; meantime the ruthless foe Smiting her shoulders with the spear, to toil Command her and to bondage far away, And her cheek fades with horror at the sound.” | quote | Homer. Odyssey. | ||
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | Odyss. | title | Homer. Odyssey. | ||
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | Valerius Maximus | citation | Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 1776. | History | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “Brutus adest, tandemque animo sua nomina fallit: Fixaque semanimi corpore tela rapit. Stillantemque tenens generoso sanguine cultrum, Edidit impavidos ore minante sonos: Per tibi ego hunc juro fortem castumque cruorem, Perque tuos Manes, qui mihi numen erunt: Tarquinium pœnas profugâ cum stirpe daturum.” | quote | Ovid. Fastorum Libri Sex. 0008. | ||
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | Fast | title | Ovid. Fastorum Libri Sex. 0008. | ||
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “Viros cum Mucio, vel cum Aquilio, aut Regulo comparo? Pueri et Mulierculæ nostræ cruces et tormenta, feras, et omnes suppliciorum terriculas inspiratâ patientiâ doloris illudunt.” | quote | Felix, Marcus Minucius. Octavius. 1712. | Theology | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | Minucius Felix. | citation | Felix, Marcus Minucius. Octavius. 1712. | Theology | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “In this representation which I made to place myself near to Christ, there would come suddenly upon me, without either expectation or preparation on my part, such an evident feeling of the presence of God, as that I could by no means doubt, but that either he was within me, or else I all engulfed in him. This was not in the manner of a vision, but I think they call it Mystical Theology; and it suspends the soul in such sort, that she seems to be wholly out of herself. The will is in the act of loving, the memory seems to be in a manner lost, the understanding in my opinion discourses not; and although it be not lost, yet it works not, as I was saying, but remains as it were amazed to consider how much it understands.” | quote | Monthly Review. 1749 – 1845. | Uncategorized periodical | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “Saint Catherine of Sienna was born in the city whence she takes her name in 1347. She vowed virginity at eight years of age, and soon after assumed the Dominican habit. She became famous for her revelations; and being ingenious, a good writer for her age, and distinguished for piety and charity, her influence was considerable. She went to Avignon to procure a reconciliation between the Florentines and Pope Gregory XI, who had excommunicated them; and by her eloquence she persuaded that pontiff to restore the papal sent to Rome after it had been seventy years at Avignon. Gregory however lived to repent of the step, and on his deathbed exhorted all persons present not to credit visions of private persons, acknowledging that he himself had been deceived by an enthusiast, and foresaw that it would produce evil consequences to the church. In the schism that succeeded, Catharine adhered to Urban VI. She died in 1380, and was canonized by Pope Pius II in 1461. There is extant of hers a volume of Italian letters, written to popes, princes, cardinals, &c., besides several devotional pieces.” | quote | Aikin, John. General Biography; or, Lives, Critical and Historical. 1801. | Biography | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | Italian letters, | title | Catherine of Siena, Saint. The Letters of St. Catherine of Siena. | ||
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | General Biography. | title | Aikin, John. General Biography; or, Lives, Critical and Historical. 1801. | Biography | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | The Chronicle of the Cid | title | [unknown]. The Chronicle of the Cid. 1808. | Folktale | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “The continuance of polygamy was his (Mahommed's) great and ruinous error: where this pernicious custom is established, there will be neither connubial, nor paternal, nor brotherly affection; and hence the unnatural murders with which Asiatic history abounds. The Mahommedan imprisons his wives, and sometimes knows not the faces of his own children; he believes that despotism must be necessary in the state, because he knows it to be necessary at home: thus the domestic tyrant becomes the contented slave, and the atrocity of the ruler and the patience of the people proceed from the same cause. It is the inevitable tendency of polygamy to degrade both sexes: wherever it prevails, the intercourse between them is merely sexual. Women are only instructed in wantonness, sensuality becomes the characteristic of whole nations, and humanity is disgraced by crimes the most loathsome and detestable. This is the primary and general cause of that despotism and degradation which are universal throughout the East.” | quote | [unknown]. The Chronicle of the Cid. 1808. | Folktale | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “These too (the women) are the most respected witnesses, the most liberal applauders of every man's conduct. The warriors come and show their wounds to their mothers and wives, who are not shocked at counting, and even requiring them.” | quote | De Vita et Moribus Julii Agricolae; et De origine et situ Germanorum. 1777. | ||
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | de Morib. | title | De Vita et Moribus Julii Agricolae; et De origine et situ Germanorum. 1777. | ||
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “Tradition relates, that armies beginning to give way have been brought again to the charge by the females, through the earnestness of their supplications, the interposition of their bodies, and the pictures they have drawn of impending slavery,…a calamity which these people bear with more impatience for their women than for themselves; so that those states who have been obliged to give among their hostages the daughters of noble families, are most effectually bound to fidelity.” | quote | Lituanus, Michalo. De Moribus Tartarorum, Lituanorum et Moscorum. 1615. | Ethnography | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “May the nations retain and perpetuate, if not an affection for us, at least an animosity against each other! since, while the fate of the empire is thus urgent, fortune can bestow no higher benefit upon us than the discord of our enemies.” | quote | Lituanus, Michalo. De Moribus Tartarorum, Lituanorum et Moscorum. 1615. | Ethnography | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | Ibid. xxxiii. et pass. | citation | Lituanus, Michalo. De Moribus Tartarorum, Lituanorum et Moscorum. 1615. | Ethnography | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | Amadis de Gaul | title | de Montalvo, Garci Rodríguez. Amadís de Gaula. 1508. | Novel | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “Appeal to impartial Posterity” | title | Roland, Madame (Marie-Jeanne). Appeal to Impartial Posterity. 1795. | Petition | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “O Liberty, how many horrors are perpetrated in thy name!” | quote | Roland, Madame (Marie-Jeanne). Appeal to Impartial Posterity. 1795. | Petition | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “there stood along the beach,” | quote | Tacitus, Cornelius. Annals. | ||
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “a thick and mingled crowd of men and arms; the women running up and down like Furies with funereal garb, dishevelled hair, uplifted torches; whilst the Druids around, hurling forth dire imprecations, their hands raised to heaven, so affrighted the soldiers with the strangeness of their appearance, that they stood as if stupefied, affording a motionless body to the weapons of the enemy.” | quote | Tacitus, Cornelius. Annals. | ||
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | Annal | title | Tacitus, Cornelius. Annals. | ||
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “In all these noble toils for the defence and security of his dominions, Edward (the elder) was greatly assisted by his sister Ethelfleda, widow of Ethered governor of Mercia. This heroic princess (who inherited more of the spirit of the great Alfred than any of his children), despising the humble cares and trifling amusements of her own sex, commanded armies, gained victories, built cities, and performed exploits which would have done honour to the greatest princes. Having governed Mercia eight years after the death of her husband, she died A. D. 920, and Edward took the government of that country into his own hand.” | quote | Henry, Robert. The History of Great Britain, from the Invasion of It by the Romans Under Julius Caesar. 1789. | History | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | History of Britain | title | Henry, Robert. The History of Great Britain, from the Invasion of It by the Romans Under Julius Caesar. 1789. | History | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “became a mistress of the Greek and Latin languages, of arithmetic, and the sciences then generally taught, and of various musical instruments. She wrote with elegance both in English and Latin. In the latter her style was so pure, that cardinal Pole could scarcely be brought to believe that her compositions were the work of a female.” | quote | Aikin, John. General Biography; or, Lives, Critical and Historical. 1801. | Biography | |
| Aikin, Lucy. Epistles on Women. 1810. | “Her reverence and affection for her father were unbounded. After his head had been exposed during fourteen days upon London bridge, she found means to procure it, and, preserving it carefully in a leaden box, gave directions that it should be placed in her arms when she was buried; which was accordingly done.” | quote | Aikin, John. General Biography; or, Lives, Critical and Historical. 1801. | Biography | |