Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press.
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James Montgomery
Standard Name: Montgomery, James
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth and Poverty | Sarah Pearson | SP
made her will on 19 November 1832. James Montgomery
was one of the executors. She left bequests to Ebenezer
and Mary Rhodes
and their seven children (who by this date were probably in need)... |
| Textual Production | Barbara Hofland | Barbara Wreaks
(later BH
) published a sonnet celebrating the lawyer who defended James Montgomery
, editor of the Iris, on a charge of printing a seditious ballad. |
| Textual Production | Sarah Pearson | In 1825 SP
dreamed of publishing another volume of poetry. She consulted James Montgomery
, but received a very discouraging response. Books of this kind had no hope of success, wrote Montgomery, irrespective of their... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
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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.