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.
James Montgomery
Standard Name: Montgomery, James
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Jemima Tautphoeus | James Montgomery
, JT
's father, was a landowner and gentleman. 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press. 2 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Anthologization | Ann Taylor Gilbert | ATG
contributed to James Montgomery
's anthology The Chimney-Sweeper's Friend, and Climbing-Boy's Album. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. 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 |
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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.