Huntington Library

Connections

Connections Sort ascending	Author name	Excerpt
Textual Production	Selina Davenport	Some of her letters to Jane Porter survive at the Huntington Library and the New York Public Library . Looser, Devoney. Email to Isobel Grundy about Selina Davenport.
Textual Production	Anna Margaretta Larpent	Her various diaries and journals are catalogued as Huntington HM 31201. Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press. 379 They have also been microfilmed and a guide has been published as A Woman's View of Drama, 1790-1830: the Diaries of Anna Margaretta...
Textual Production	Mary Scott	Steele , says MS (using her friend's pen-name, Theodosia), had urged her to finish the poem. Within the poem itself she also pays tribute, under the name of Philander, either to Steele's father...
Textual Production	Lady Anne Barnard	She had often heard this very popular tune sung by Sophia Johnston to words beginning The bridegroom greets when the sun goes down. Graham, Henry Grey. Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century. Adam and Charles Black. 343 Lady Anne told her younger sister, Elizabeth, I have been writing...
Textual Production	Mary Delany	There are sixty-four letters from and fifty letters to MD 's sister, Anne Dewes , among the Montagu Papers in the Huntington Library . Her correspondence from her years in Windsor, some of it unpublished...
Textual Production	Bathsua Makin	The title-page, in Latin, names her father as well as herself, mentions her tender age, and bears epigraphs in Greek and French. The British Library copy has a note on its final page in the...
Textual Production	Sarah Scott	The Montagu Papers at the Huntington Library contain 367 of SS 's letters to her sister, and about twice that many from Elizabeth to her. Nicole Pohl 's edition of Scott's letters (those which survived...
Textual Production	Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington	Many of MGCB 's letters were included by R. R. Madden (a personal friend) in his edition of her Literary Life and Correspondence, 1855; but he often makes unadvertised cuts in letters. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 9n26 The...
Textual Production	Mary Delany	The chief collection of MD 's manuscripts is at the Central Library , Newport, Monmouthshire. Her autobiography has unfortunately disappeared, but other papers are in the Portland Collection at the University of Nottingham ...
Textual Production	Bathsua Makin	BM wrote elegies on the deaths of two children of Lady Huntingdon . Her Latin elegy for Henry, Lord Hastings (grandson of Lady Eleanor Douglas , who died on 24 June 1649), was never printed...
Textual Production	Lydia Howard Sigourney	LHS was an indefatigable correspondent. Her papers are to be found at the Connecticut Historical Library , the Connecticut State Library , the Huntington Library , the Schlesinger Library , the New York Historical Society
Textual Production	Anna Brassey	AB 's work has received some reprinting, for instance in A Book of Sea Journeys, compiled by Ludovic Kennedy (1981). Nancy Micklewright 's A Victorian Traveler in the Middle East, 2003, deals with...
Textual Production	Bathsua Makin	The Bodleian Library holds poems by BM (not indexed under M); the British Library has a copy of Musa Virginea with a note on the final page in her writing. The Huntington Library has her...
Textual Production	Ephelia	The royal licence indicates that the gentlewoman attribution must have been accurate. The date belongs to the height of the plot: that is, the anti-Catholic furore that followed the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
Textual Production	Charlotte McCarthy	It was printed for the Author. Copies survive at the Library of Congress , Huntington Library , and Boston Public Library . Biographia Dramatica calls it a performance, though the text states that it...

Timeline

27 November 1807

The Sans Pareil Theatre in London (later the Adelphi), built by manufacturer John Scott, opened with an entertainment of speeches, songs, etc. written by his daughter, Jane Scott .

April 1947

A Bethlehem antiquities dealer bought some papyrus scrolls found by a Bedouin shepherd in a cave at Qumran near the Dead Sea. One copy of the book of Isaiah has proved to be the...

Texts

Child, Elizabeth. “Elizabeth Montagu, Bluestocking Businesswoman”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 153-73.

Eger, Elizabeth. “‘Out rushed a female to protect the Bard’: The Bluestocking Defense of Shakespeare”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 127-51.

Guest, Harriet. “Bluestocking Feminism”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 59-80.

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery,. Guide to Literary Manuscripts in the Huntington Library. Huntington Library, 1979.

Kelly, Gary. “Clara Reeve, Provincial Bluestocking: From the Old Whigs to the Modern Liberal State”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 105-25.

Lanser, Susan Sniader. “Bluestocking Sapphism and the Economies of Desire”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 257-75.

Magrath, Jane. “’Rags of Mortality’: Negotiating the Body in the Bluestocking Letters”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 235-56.

Major, Emma. “The Politics of Sociability: Public Dimensions of the Bluestocking Millennium”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 175-92.

Pohl, Nicole, and Betty Schellenberg. “Introduction: A Bluestocking Historiography”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 1-19.

Rizzo, Betty. “Two Versions of Community: Montagu and Scott”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 193-14.

Staves, Susan. “Church of England Clergy and Women Writers”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 81-103.