Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Seward | Ashmun states clearly that the great love and passion of [Seward's] life was for John Saville
, Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 178 |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Trimmer | She corresponded with Jane West
, Elizabeth Carter
, and Hannah More
. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. under West Balfour, Clara. A Sketch of Mrs. Trimmer. W. and F. G. Cash, 1854. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Haywood | A more recent generation of feminist scholars has succeeded in locating EH
in the developing tradition of women's fiction. Critic Mary Anne Schofield
has argued that her heroines are feisty feminists. Paula Backscheider
points out... |
Literary responses | Sarah Trimmer | ST
's work made a great impact. She was one of the twenty-four most-reviewed women writers of 1789-90. Hawkins, Ann R., and Stephanie Eckroth, editors. Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Vol. 3 vols., Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013. |
Literary responses | Helen Maria Williams | |
Reception | Anna Seward | The writer Jane West
, replying to heavy condemnation of AS
from Thomas Percy
, offered a model of candid judgement. She agreed that Seward's prose style was not English but insisted that her poetry... |
Textual Features | Sarah Trimmer | In addition to Catharine Cappe
's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
, the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as... |
Textual Features | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility uses, reflects in its title, and radically alters, the paired-heroines motif made popular by Jane West
and others. If JA
's Dashwood sisters exemplify a pattern and a warning respectively, they nevertheless... |
Textual Features | Mary Hays | The plot follows the life-stories of two sisters (somewhat crudely distinguished for worldly selfishness on the one hand and prudent, generous sincerity on the other) and their brother, who is a spendthrift like his frivolous... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Meeke | But the most interesting feature of Midnight Weddings is the discussion of novels and novel-writing with which it opens. Meeke defends the function of novels (which, of course, must offer a good moral) and the... |
Textual Production | Anna Seward | With this work appeared AS
's Ode to the Sun. Richard Lovell Edgeworth
later categorically alleged that the best passages in the elegy were in fact written by Erasmus Darwin
, and this story... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Hervey | This was written quickly, but the American episodes reflect research. Hervey, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The History of Ned Evans (1796), edited by Helena Kelly, Pickering and Chatto, 2010, p. vii - xxii. ix |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Helena Wells | HW
's prefaces give some personal details and some opinions. She admires Jane West
, and hopes the cause of women will succeed to that of Abolition (now safely achieved). She argues that there ought... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Figes | Though she mentions such writers as Eliza Haywood
and Mary Davys
, she begins her detailed discussion with the 1790s (a time which twenty years on would be regarded as somewhat late in the history... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Hays | For the Analytical, Wollstonecraft early offered her Jane West
's A Gossip's Story, and Hays began her review with a defence of the value to society of the novel as a genre. Waters, Mary A. “’The First of a New Genus’: Mary Wollstonecraft as Literary Critic and Mentor to Mary Hays”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, No. 3, pp. 415 - 34. 426 |