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Anne Damer
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Standard Name: Damer, Anne
Birth Name: Anne Seymour Conway
Married Name: Anne Damer
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, who won high critical praise as a sculptor, also wrote poetry and kept journals. She left one definitely and one possibly identified novels, and a series of linked fictional pieces, all published in the early nineteenth century.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Performance of text | Joanna Baillie | JB
wrote an epilogue to a play by Anne Damer
, which was spoken by Damer at a performance of her work at Strawberry Hill. Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. ix - xiv, 1. 25 |
| Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | JB
sent her friend Mary Berry
a prologue for Fashionable Friends, Berry's play produced at Drury Lane
by Anne Damer
in 1802; she also wrote an epilogue for it. Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. ix - xiv, 1. 2n7, 3 Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 153n2 |
| Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry
and Anne Damer
both offered comments and revisions four years before this play was published. Lady Louisa Stuart
did the same (through Walter Scott) in 1809. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 158-9, 244 Slagle, editor of JB |
| Textual Production | Hannah Brand | HB
addressed to her fellow-lesbian Anne Damer
a poem whose manuscript survives at the Lewis Walpole Library
at Farmington, Connecticut, along with others of Damer's papers. Feminist Companion Archive. under Damer |
| Publishing | Hannah Brand | It was printed at Norwich and sold through London publishers. The subscription list was impressive, including Anna Letitia Barbauld
, John Brand (presumably HB
's brother) of Hemingston Hall in Suffolk, who took twenty copies... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Charlotte Bury | Another first cousin was novelist and sculptor Anne Damer
. |
| Textual Production | Lady Charlotte Bury | She was probably planning this work when in 1810 she told Charlotte Clavering
that Susan Ferrier
's novels made her despair of ever writing as well. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 63 |
| Textual Production | Lady Charlotte Bury | LCB
seems to have written, in 1827, a brief preface for a new edition of the novel Belmour, by her first cousin Anne Damer
(first published in 1801). Her preface was reprinted in a... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Charlotte Bury | The preface takes the form of some account of Damer
's life and character, making some mention of her reputation as a sculptor, her impeccable behaviour as the wife of a depraved husband, and... |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | In Richmond and elsewhere MC
met emigrés fleeing the French Revolution. She also met a number of women who wrote: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, Mary
and Agnes Berry
, and Anne Damer
. In... |
| Textual Features | Hannah Cowley | A prologue complains that true comedy is being driven from the stage by farce and slapstick. The plot turns on the manoevres by which the despicable Fancourt seeks to swindle a provincial worthy, Sir Robert... |
| Textual Features | Susan Ferrier | This novel, begun with the declared aim of warning young women against elopement, sets out to examine the ingredients, both moral and economic, of happy and unhappy marriages. SF
sees her topic as useful for... |
| Textual Features | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | The Sylph of the title is the secret, unidentified adviser of the heroine, Julia, Lady Stanley (who before her marriage was a naive country girl), during her not always successful struggles to live morally amid... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Hands | The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed
. It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies... |
| Textual Production | Lucy Hutchinson | The editor of the first, lavishly-produced edition of this history recommended it particularly to female readers, as more entertaining than most novels. He also silently cut from it about 9,000 words, besides tinkering with the... |
Timeline
1 April 1789: Hester Lynch Piozzi (a propos reports about...
Building item
1 April 1789
Hester Lynch Piozzi
(a propos reports about Marie Antoinette
) indignantly recorded what she presents as if it was her first encounter with lesbianism.
Texts
Damer, Anne. Belmour. Joseph Johnson, 1801.
Damer, Anne. Journal of the Heart. Editor Bury, Lady Charlotte, H. Colburn, 1830.
Damer, Anne. Letters of Miss Riversdale. Joseph Johnson, 1803.