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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Before this book appeared, Morgan quarrelled with Colburn
over his advertising policy, and sold her manuscript to Saunders and Otley
for a thousand pounds. In revenge, Colburn advertised against it, and offered to dispose of... |
Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | The only extended notice of this very interesting work was William Maginn
's hatchet job in Fraser's Magazine, which took Morgan's literary inadequacy for granted, and mercilessly ridiculed both her gender and her nationality... |
Family and Intimate relationships | L. E. L. | Spiteful rumours resurfaced about her relationship with William Jerdan
, and there are reports that William Maginn
circulated some compromising letters she had written. Forster pressed her to marry immediately, but instead she broke off... |
Family and Intimate relationships | L. E. L. | Friends of LEL
began receiving anonymous letters suggesting that she was having an adulterous affair with William Maginn
. Stephenson, Glennis. Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L. Manchester University Press. 39 |
Literary responses | Anna Maria Hall | The August 1831 review in Fraser's Magazine, possibly penned by Irish writer William Maginn
, accused AMH
of plagiarism—claiming that her story The Rapparee was uncomfortably similar to Bulwer Lytton
's Paul Clifford. Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe. 8, 234 |
Literary responses | Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton | Bulwer's Newgate novels were insistently skewered by William Maginn
, and after 1836 by Thackeray
, in Fraser's Magazine. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Textual Production | Harriet Downing | She had contributed More Poets on the Ice on 25 February 1835 to Leigh Hunt
's short-lived London Journal. C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. http://c19index.chadwyck.com/home.do. |