Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
The Monthly Review was on the whole complimentary. It judged the novel to be original and entertaining, though it complained of a few Hibernicisms and grammatical errors. It concentrated, oddly, on the Don Zulvago plot...
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
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...
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.
265
When she moved to London, JP
included among her friends...
Publishing
Mary Robinson
The Morning Post carried MR
's Lines Addressed to a Beautiful Infant Inscribed to Mrs Fenwick.
Close, Anne. “Into the Public: The Sexual Heroine in Eliza Fenwick’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Secresy</span> and Mary Robinson’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Natural Daughter</span>”;. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
17
, No. 1, pp. 35-52.
37-8
Friends, Associates
Mary Robinson
MR
remained devoted to the idea of female friendship. She met the artist Maria Cosway
in France and they became firm friends. In her last months she wrote to the novelist Elizabeth Gunning
to sympathise...
Literary responses
Mary Robinson
The Critical Review said that from the first page it had expected something superior, but had been disappointed: even a few pieces of elegant poetry
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan.
261, 288
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...
Publishing
Susanna Watts
It has not been traced. Edgeworth also reported: My father
is afraid, though she has considerable talents, to recommend her to Johnson
, lest she should not answer.
Watts, Susanna. Scrapbook.
The Edgeworths were apparently not prepared to...
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
Anthologization
Dorothy Wordsworth
DW
sent to Charles and Mary Lamb, by June 1804, some little scraps for a children's verse anthology which Eliza Fenwick
was compiling, which was published the Tabart
the next year as Songs for...
