Blamire, Susanna. The Poetical Works. Woodstock Books.
116-25
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Textual Production | Susanna Blamire | Not all SB
's writing of these years was political, however. To the Flower Love-in-idleness: and a Petition to the Fairies to Bring Indifference, written in June 1790, Blamire, Susanna. The Poetical Works. Woodstock Books. 116-25 |
Textual Production | Sarah Harriet Burney | SHB
wrote a Sonnet to Imagination, in answer to that to Indifference, which sounds like a contribution to the poetic debate begun by Frances Greville
. Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press. 488 |
Textual Production | Mary Robinson | From The WorldMR
moved on to a rival periodical, The Oracle, to which she contributed fairy poems as Oberon—a name which perhaps owes something to Frances Greville
's famous Ode to Indifference... |
Textual Features | Tabitha Tenney | Choice of women writers is fairly generous, with excerpts from Hester Mulso Chapone
, John Aikin
and Anna Letitia Barbauld
(Evenings at Home), Susanna Haswell Rowson
, Elizabeth Carter
, Hester Thrale
,... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | Many of the poems continue the autobiographical mode of her first two books, with fawning gratitude for favourable reception as a writer. Many are elegiac, lamenting or commemorating people and places that had been dear... |
Textual Features | Sophia King | The contents are part new, part reprinted. SK
notes this in Remarks of the Author, which admits the claims of good taste but declares that fantastic imagination too has its place. She writes in... |
Textual Features | Sarah Wentworth Morton | These poems include political subject-matter, for instance in the celebratory Ode to the President, On his visiting the Northern States. This addresses Washington
as Columbia's guardian God, Smith, Elihu Hubbard, editor. American Poems, Selected and Original. Collier and Buel. 180 |
Textual Features | Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny | Unlike curst apathy, she writes, contemplation can raise the seed which Virtue sows, / From Folly's blights the tender plant defend, / 'Till vigorous as the towering oak it grows. Blanch, William Harnett. Ye Parish of Camerwell. A Brief Account of the Parish of Camberwell. E. W. Allen. 39 The rejection of... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Dacre | This appendix includes sonnets, meditations, and Edmund and Anna, A Legendary Tale. CD
addresses abstractions of various kinds: morning and evening, love, sympathy, madness, and war and peace. Indifference reflects the influence of Frances Greville |
Textual Features | Harriet Downing | In the title poem a recluse offers shelter in his cave to a lady who gives birth and then dies, leaving her child to be educated only by nature. The protagonist of The Dying Maniac... |
Publishing | Sarah Fielding | The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret
. Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF
's local and family connections: Ralph Allen
, Lord Chesterfield |
Publishing | Sarah Dixon | SD
reveals her gender in her preface merely by her use of pronouns. Her motive for publishing was a dire need of money. An unnamed benefactor in her family supplied the need, but she decided... |
Occupation | Sarah Harriet Burney | Lady Crewe
, whose two daughters were the pupils concerned, was herself the daughter of the writer Frances Greville
, and as Mrs Crewe (before her husband received a peerage in 1806) had been well... |
Literary responses | Ann Yearsley | Again one of Yearsley's most perceptive readers was Anna Seward
, who wrote to Helen Maria Williams
on Christmas Day 1787 that Yearsley and Burns
were both miracles . . . . Perhaps she has... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Savage | A Letter to Miss E.B. on Marriage comments acutely on the conduct-book market: every He that writes claims a superior recipe for form[ing] the tender virgin's mind. Savage, Mary. Poems on Various Subjects and Occasions. C. Parker. 2: 4 |
No bibliographical results available.