Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
36-7, 71
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Eleanor Anne Porden | By the age of nine or ten EAP
was attending science lectures given by Sir Humphry Davy
and others at the Royal Institution
in London. One commentator, Desmond King-Hele
, argues that she gathered... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charles Darwin | His paternal grandfather was the scientist and poet Erasmus Darwin
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Seward | At least in her mature years, AS
had a low opinion of marriage, though there were various stories of her nearly marrying (or wishing to marry) various men beginning with Erasmus Darwin
, then her... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Seward | Nine years later her meeting with the provincial literary hostess Anne, Lady Miller
, marked the beginning of a wide and deep acquaintance with the literary world beyond Lichfield. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 36-7, 71 |
Friends, Associates | Frances Jacson | The Jacson sisters became acquainted with the literary circle in Lichfield which also included Erasmus Darwin
, Anna Seward
, and Thomas Day
, as well as their cousin Sir Brooke Boothby
, who probably introduced them there. Shteir, Ann B. “Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women’s Popular Science Writing in England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, No. 3, pp. 301 - 17. 308 |
Friends, Associates | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | Probably through their cousin Sir Brooke Boothby
, the Jacson sisters became acquainted with an intellectually-minded group of people of both sexes based in Lichfield: Erasmus Darwin
as well as Anna Seward
and Thomas Day |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | Samuel Pipe Wolferstan"s friends included Erasmus Darwin
, Anna Seward
, Thomas Gisborne
, and the novelist Robert Bage
. Of EPW
's own friends, Mary Gresley
was seriously pursued by her husband before he married Elizabeth. Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe. “Preface”. Agatha, edited by John Goss. forthcoming |
Health | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | She had for years been subject to migraines after which she would be troubled by her eyes. She now suffered extreme pain, was kept in the dark for months, and was left with an eye... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Arabella Rowden | She dedicated the work to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
(aunt of her pupil Lady Caroline Lamb
), who blooms the sweetest flow'r in Britain's isle. Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Poetical Introduction to the Study of Botany. T. Bensley, 1801. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Moody | The volume opens with an anti-war poem (as well as reprinting Anna's Complaint and The Temptation) and includes several pieces on deaths: of family members, of a baby, of Edward Lovibond
, of Horace Walpole |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare
, Milton
, Pope
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, William Mason
, John Langhorne
, Burns
, Erasmus Darwin
, Edward Young |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Beeton | As it turned out, however, most of the recipes and information in the book came from published sources, though two popular cookery books directed at the middle classes, Hannah Glasse
's The Art of Cookery... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Seward | AS
was writing religious verse at ten or twelve years old. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 8 |