Wells, Helena. Letters on Subjects of Importance to the Happiness of Young Females. L. Peacock; W. Creech.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Helena Wells | HW
says she has more respect for the upper classes than some of our modern reformists. Wells, Helena. Letters on Subjects of Importance to the Happiness of Young Females. L. Peacock; W. Creech. 7 |
Textual Production | Susanna Watts | SW
worked hard for three months at translating Tasso
's Jerusalem and Verri
's Roman Nights; she had already done some translation from Tasso in about 1786. Elizabeth Singer Rowe
, too, had translated from Tasso's Jerusalem. Watts, Susanna. Scrapbook. 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. Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott. 12 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Watts | SW
's choice of originals shows the catholicity of her tastes: on the one hand a Renaissance work (of which the standard English version was by John Hoole
, 1763) and on the other Le... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susanna Watts | After the pasted-in pages and a section devoted to Tasso
, the volume moves to a poem modelled on the tabular lists of good and evil in his life that are kept by Defoe
's... |
Education | Freya Stark | Freya had a German governess until the age of eight, and then an Italian governess who stayed until she was fourteen. Izzard, Molly. Freya Stark: A Biography. Hodder and Stoughton. 252-3 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Smith | One month before writing this poem Elizabeth Smith
met Mary Hunt
, with whom she was soon maintaining a scholarly correspondence. In the earliest letter which Bowdler prints (written on 7 July 1792), Smith touches... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The action of this novel takes place in many different parts of Italy. Its features include a mystery over the heroine's birth (her mother was an escaped nun and her father was burned by... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | EPS
has an eye for picturesque scenes, which she describes as set pieces as well as sketching as an artist. Examples are the group formed by a servant and a native each knee-deep in a... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Edmund Curll
, still cashing in, published Select Translations from Tasso
's Jerusalem, by the late ESR
. Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang. 157 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | The Vision (first of her poems both in the Tonson volume and in the posthumous Miscellaneous Works) and On the Creation both express the resolve to choose religious themes for the future. Two extended... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson
and Wordsworth
; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray
and Crabbe
, and wrote several poems inspired... |
Occupation | Frances Reynolds | Samuel Johnson
was eager to sit for her, and did so on three occasions: in March 1775, in June 1780, and in summer 1783. He may have been sitting for her on the day before... |
Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | Anna Seward
, in letters which were to be published in AR
's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 221-2 |
Textual Production | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | She began writing this work, which she subtitled A Dramatic Poem, in Five Acts, five years earlier; even after its printing it remained unproduced. Arnold, Ralph. The Unhappy Countess and her Grandson John Bowes. Constable. 29-30 |