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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Standard Name: Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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is one of the six major (male) English Romantic poets.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Amelia Opie | AO
wrote this novel in order to grapple with the events of 1794, a year which saw the end of the Terror in France, but at home the suspension of Habeas Corpus and the treason... |
| Publishing | Margaret Fuller | This was followed by a review, in the August issue, of the novels of Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton)
(which she put forward as worth examining because of their moral qualities). Further essays by MF
appeared... |
| Publishing | Mathilde Blind | MB
's criticism of Percy Bysshe Shelley
(a version of a lecture given the previous year) was published in the Westminster Review. |
| Publishing | Mary Shelley | The firm of John Murray
declined to publish Frankenstein or Modern Prometheus, which had been offered to them through H[orace] (or Horatio) Smith
, a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, the author
's husband. Sutherland, Kathryn. “Jane Austen’s Dealings with John Murray and his Firm”. Review of English Studies, Vol. 52 . 6 |
| Author summary | Ella D'Arcy | EDA
was chiefly a short-story writer, known for her acerbic depictions of personal pain caused by the institution of marriage. Unlike other New Woman writers she shows no bias towards her own sex: her victims... |
| Performance of text | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
's biographical play, Shelley
; or, The Idealist, was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre
in London. Jellicoe, Ann. Shelley. Faber and Faber. prelims Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 221 |
| Occupation | Florence Farr | The lecture proved quite popular, and Clifford's Inn had to turn people away. Over the following years, FF
put on many such readings, performing works by Homer
, Shelley
, Yeats
, Lady Gregory
... |
| Occupation | Fanny Aikin Kortright | At her father's death it became necessary for FAK
and her unmarried sisters to find work, and they all became governesses. Her first job was at Bradford in Yorkshire, in the family of an... |
| Occupation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Poems and Ballads appeared in 1866. This highly controversial collection, following closely on the heels of two successful plays, firmly established his literary reputation. He published an illustrated book of literary criticism, William Blake
... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Shelley | |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Percy Shelley
, having read her first volume of poems and heard a report of her from his cousin Thomas Medwin
, attempted unsuccessfully and under a pseudonym to establish a correspondence with the teenaged... |
| Literary responses | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | This book sparked both sensation and controversy. It was the starting point for Blessington's friendships with Isaac D'Israeli
and Edward Bulwer-Lytton
. Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press. 149 |
| Literary responses | Michael Field | George Meredith
thought the play would act well but added this criticism: I do not find in your dramatic prose the complete ring that there is in the sound and volume of your blank verse... |
| Literary responses | Amelia Opie | The Critical Review, which had praised AO
's earlier work, thought this novel equally well done, and that the description of the heroine's death could stand comparison with those of Richardson
's Clarissa or... |
| Literary responses | Ethel M. Dell | In response to a compliment on her writing EMD
replied, they are not well written and will never be called classics. Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton. 129 |
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