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James Montgomery
Standard Name: Montgomery, James
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Ann Taylor Gilbert | ATG
contributed to James Montgomery
's anthology The Chimney-Sweeper's Friend, and Climbing-Boy's Album. Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland. xxv |
| Dedications | Ann Taylor Gilbert | Young Josiah had the idea for this volume when he had been staying with the Taylors, and his father, Thomas Conder
, was the book's publisher. Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons. 207 |
| Education | Mary Howitt | Her sister Ann had become a pupil at this school the previous year. Kilham involved the girls in visiting the poor, and her friendship with the poet James Montgomery
first awoke Mary's interest in the... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Jemima Tautphoeus | James Montgomery
, JT
's father, was a landowner and gentleman. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. The headnote to her anonymous novel The Initials states that the author's father was the Lord High Chancellor of England, but no other source confirms this. Tautphoeus, Jemima. The Initials. T. B. Peterson and Brothers. prelims |
| Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | In her memoirs LA
claims to have been acquainted with all the notable literary women of her time. She was a close friend of Joanna Baillie
and Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
. Another important friend and... |
| Friends, Associates | Hannah Kilham | As a Quaker she met William Allen
, president of the African Association
, who interested her in the welfare of the black colony at Sierra Leone. She was also a friend of James Montgomery |
| Friends, Associates | Sarah Pearson | The thousand subscribers to SP
's first publication suggest that she had an impressive circle of friends and contacts in Sheffield and also in the Channel Islands. She and her writings were well known... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes James Montgomery
. The story, set in the seventeenth century, opens as Iwanowna marries Frederic Moldovani on her nineteenth birthday. News of his death closes the first volume; but tragedy is held... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | The volume, dedicated to her mother
and taking from James Montgomery
its epigraph—A day's march nearer home— Rossetti, Christina. Time Flies. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; E. and J. B. Young. title page |
| Literary responses | Ann Taylor Gilbert | Those who left a record of their enthusiasm for these little books included Robert Southey
, Dr Thomas Arnold
of Rugby School, and Archbishop Whately
. James Montgomery
and Maria Edgeworth
were particularly appreciative of Ann. Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons. 172 |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | It appeared jointly with James Montgomery
's West Indies, A Poem and James Grahame
's Africa Delivered. The volume has engravings by Robert Smirke
. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy et al. “A Poem, Occasioned by the Abolition of the Slave Trade, in 1806”. Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, R. Bowyer. title-page |
| Publishing | Barbara Hofland | James Montgomery
, editor of the Sheffield paper the Iris, helped with encouragement and advertising. He printed the poetry volume at the Iris office in Sheffield, with a ruined-abbey frontispiece and a title-page... |
| Publishing | Barbara Hofland | BH
began as she meant to go on. In the same year as her first short novel for children, 1809, she also produced La Fete de la Rose; or, The Dramatic Flowers. A Holiday Present... |
| Reception | Charlotte Lennox | Among modern scholars, Duncan Isles
called this the fullest and probably most reliable biography, and Susan Carlile
regrets that it has not been more used. Carlile, Susan. “Expanding the Feminine: Reconsidering Charlotte Lennox’s Age and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Life of Harriot Stuart</span>”;. Eighteenth-Century Novel, edited by Albert J. Rivero and George Justice, Vol. 4 , pp. 103-37. 110 |
| Textual Production | Anna Seward | AS
published with her name, at Sheffield through the poet James Montgomery
, Blindness. A Poem, Written at the request of an artist, who lost his sight. Feminist Companion Archive. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. A manuscript note in the British Library |
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Texts
Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy et al. “A Poem, Occasioned by the Abolition of the Slave Trade, in 1806”. Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, R. Bowyer, 1809.
Montgomery, James, editor. The Chimney-Sweeper’s Friend, and Climbing-Boy’s Album. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824.