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William Roscoe
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Standard Name: Roscoe, William,, 1753 - 1831
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Ann Taylor Gilbert | Ann Taylor
(without her sister Jane) published The Wedding Among the Flowers, a children's book on the model of William Roscoe
's The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast. Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland. xxii |
Publishing | Felicia Hemans | The attractive quarto volume, printed in Liverpool for T. Cadell and W. Davies
in London, was dedicated with permission to the Prince of Wales
. It had 977 other subscribers, including Captain Alfred Hemans |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Heyrick | Both the title-page and the body of the work quote (unascribed) lines about social injustice spoken by Shakespeare
's King Lear (who has only just realised the rampant injustice of the world and of his... |
Textual Features | Mary Anne Jevons | No attributions are given for particular pieces, but the collection contains the father
's celebrated narrative poem for children, The Butterfly's Ball, as well as works by Mary Anne's younger sister Jane Elizabeth
... |
Residence | Mary Anne Jevons | Mary Anne Roscoe (later Jevons)
moved with her family into Allerton Hall, near Liverpool: an estate bought by her father
, where her paternal grandfather had once served as a butler. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Roscoe |
Residence | Mary Anne Jevons | In the face of bankruptcy, William Roscoe
(father of Mary Anne Jevons
) sold the family's beloved home, Allerton Hall. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Roscoe |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Anne Jevons | Writer and abolitionist William Roscoe
, beloved father of Mary Anne Jevons
, died at Liverpool. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Roscoe |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Anne Jevons | Mary Anne was very close to her father, William Roscoe
, the historian, writer, patron of the arts, abolitionist and reformer. William began his professional career as a barrister, but retired early. Soon afterwards he... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Anne Jevons | William
's bank had collapsed (not the only one to do so) during the economic depression. At this time he and his family had to sell off many assets and prized possessions (including his valuable... |
Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | During the last months of Burns
's life, Riddell was again sending him her verses to read. He dined at her house, though too weak to walk, on 5 July 1796, and asked her sardonically... |
Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | In England as in Scotland MR
had a wide circle of friends. They included the artists Thomas Lawrence
and Henry Fuseli
and the writers Samuel Rogers
, Richard Sharp
, and Sir James Mackintosh
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Sandbach | MS
's grandfather, William Roscoe
, was a historian, poet, abolitionist, and reformer, whose immensely talented children published a book of family verse in 1820. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Sandbach | She probably used her grandfather
's The Life of Lorenzo de' Medici (1796) as a historical source. Athenæum. J. Lection. 789 (1842): 1062 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Roscoe |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lydia Howard Sigourney | The original volume also includes poems written for children. Flora's Party (in the style of William Roscoe
's The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast, 1807, Catherine Ann Dorset
's The Peacock "at Home"... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Tighe | Before she left London, MT
met there her fellow Irish poet Tom Moore
. He subsequently visited her in Dublin and complimented her in verse. She exchanged poems with Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre)
... |
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