Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of. Emma. T. Hookham, 1773, 3 vols.
1: 66
Frances Greville
Standard Name: Greville, Frances
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | The feelings of this Emma are all in extremes. During her early passion she quotes Frances Greville
on the pains of sensibility. |
| 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. qtd. in Blanch, William Harnett. Ye Parish of Camerwell. A Brief Account of the Parish of Camberwell. E. W. Allen, 1875. 39 The rejection of... |
| 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, 1994. 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, 1997. 488 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | ESG
quotes on her title-page from James Hammond
and early in her first volume from Samuel Johnson
(no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author). qtd. in Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah. The Life of Mrs Gooch. Printed for the authoress and sold by C. and G. Kearsley, 1792, 3 vols. 1: 11 |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Griffith | He describes her with a line from Donne
's Second Anniversary. EG
's range of reference here includes Rousseau
, Milton
, Frances Greville
, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
. Characters discuss and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Ham | At Ardnaree EH
found herself courted by an officer named Jackson, with a sentimental manner and a habit of quoting poetry, such as Frances Greville
's prayer for indifference. He had aroused strong interest in... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Selima Hill | Again, her poems make up a series with a single speaker: a youngish woman living on a remote farm with practically no social context beyond animals and her mother. When she falls in love it... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | BH
also pays much attention in her poems to other writers. Stanzas to the River Don footnotes Wortley Hall as a former home of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
. Hofland, Barbara. Poems. Printed by J. Montgomery, and sold by Vernor and Hood, 1805. 6-11 and n |
Timeline
By 22 May 1755: George Colman and Bonnell Thornton edited...
Women writers item
By 22 May 1755
George Colman
and Bonnell Thornton
edited and published an anthology entitled Poems by Eminent Ladies.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
12: 512
Eger, Elizabeth. “Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 201-15.
210
Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
86-7
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
286-7
1756 or 1757: Frances Greville, in Italy with her family...
Women writers item
1756 or 1757
Frances Greville
, in Italy with her family some months after the death of her eldest son (aged around six), composed a poem which became a landmark text, the Ode to [or Prayer for] Indifference.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
April 1774: The Monthly Review, in a notice on Hannah...
Women writers item
April 1774
The Monthly Review, in a notice on Hannah More
's The Inflexible Captive, quoted some lines which transform the Muses from ancient Greece into the living female poets of Britain.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
50 (April 1774): 243-51
January 1781-December 1782: The Lady's Poetical Magazine, or Beauties...
Writing climate item
January 1781-December 1782
The Lady's Poetical Magazine, or Beauties of British Poetry appeared, published by James Harrison
in four half-yearly numbers; it is arguable whether or not it kept the first number's promise of generous selections of work...
By 26 October 1972: Helen Gardner edited The New Oxford Book...
Writing climate item
By 26 October 1972
Helen Gardner
edited The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950, designed to update and replace Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
's Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(26 October 1972): 11
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