Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Sadler, ThomasEditor , Macmillan, 1872.
199-200
Eliza Fenwick
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Standard Name: Fenwick, Eliza
Birth Name: Eliza Jaco
Married Name: Eliza Fenwick
Pseudonym: A Woman
Pseudonym: E. F.
Pseudonym: the Rev. David Blair
EF
, now known (after long obscurity) for her single, remarkable surviving epistolary novel of the radical school of the 1790s, also wrote characterful children's books and extremely vivid letters which extend several decades into the nineteenth century. Her second adult novel never materialised.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Dorothy Wordsworth | |
| Dedications | Mary Hays | It was published by Simpkin and Marshall
, dedicated to Eliza Fenwick
in these words: While the Atlantic rolls between us, allow me, dear friend, to gratify my feelings, by addressing to you this little... |
| Education | Fanny Holcroft | FH
's upbringing was purposely and radically progressive. Eliza Fenwick
's intention of bringing her own children up without belief in God was shaken when she found herself disgusted & shocked at the blind, coarse... |
| Education | Elizabeth Grant | While the family resided in London, theatre-going provided another much-welcomed form of education and entertainment. EG
once attended a production of The Caravan, featuring John Kemble
, in which Carlo, the famous Newfoundland... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Hays | This was her most formative and most famous friendship. She had approached Wollstonecraft after the latter published Vindication of the Rights of Woman early that same year. Wollstonecraft proved a valuable professional mentor. Another relationship... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Wollstonecraft | At this time MW
's achievements were admired by Southey
, Coleridge
, and many English Jacobins who felt themselves oppressed. Her friends included Elizabeth Inchbald
, Mary Robinson
, and more warmly Eliza Fenwick |
| Friends, Associates | Thomas Holcroft | TH
knew most of the English radicals of the day. For years before this he had been a particularly close friend of William Godwin
, who regarded him as a mentor. The two men saw... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | ML
's friends (many of them made through Charles) included Eliza Fenwick
(whose husband
and Charles drank together), Henry Crabb Robinson
, and many more canonical members of the Romantic movement. Charles was close to... |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Parsons | Evidence of friendship between these two novelists is interesting because Parsons was a model of respectability while association with Robinson could potentially damage another woman's reputation. At this date Robinson (who had only another five... |
| Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson
recorded in his diary meeting JB
and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
). In his account of this pleasant evening... |
| Friends, Associates | Annabella Plumptre | On that November date Annabella made an attempt, by letter, to bring together their friend Amelia Alderson (later Opie)
with Mary Hays
. (Anne had already written to the same purpose in March, but not... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Having already praised many contemporary women writers in print, EOB
was now able to meet them. The move to London was accomplished principally through the zealous friendship of Miss Sarah Wesley
, who had already... |
| Friends, Associates | Anne Plumptre | Their friends included Eliza Fenwick
, Helen Maria Williams
, Susannah Taylor
, Mary Hays
, Amelia Opie
, Thomas Holcroft
, John Thelwall
, and other radicals. AP
supported Thelwall's local electioneering, and Ann Jebb |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | The guests included Joanna Baillie
, Jane Porter
(both mentioned as celebrities) and Eliza Fenwick
. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary. |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Porter | The Porters' mother lived a busy social life on limited means, and JP
kept up this tradition. Sir Walter Scott
was an early friend. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 265 |
Timeline
14 March 1786
An order was established to prevent wards of the Upper
and Lower Orphanage
s in India (mixed-race boys) from travelling to Britain for education.
4 April 1788
At about the time that he lost his religious faith, William Godwin
began keeping a diary, which he continued almost daily until 26 March 1836, only two weeks before he died.
January 1812
The Theatre Royal
first opened in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Paul, Lissa. “Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840): Morality, Motherhood and the Colonial Encounter in Early Nineteenth Century Bridgetown”. Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, pp. 98 - 112.
103
6 March 1834
The settlement of York, population 9,250, became Toronto, Upper Canada'sfirst incorporated municipality, with a mayor, aldermen and powers of taxation.
Gee, Marcus. “Moment in Time: March 6, 1834”. Globe and Mail, p. A2.