Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe. “Preface”. Agatha, edited by John Goss.
forthcoming
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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 |
Textual Features | Priscilla Wakefield | Shteir notes that the teachings of Tournefort
as well as Linnaeus are invoked. Wakefield expounds Linnean taxonomy, using as her examples such native British plants as would be easy for amateur botanists to observe around... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | The poem on the goddess Flora, with which CS
prefaces this book, is clearly a response to Erasmus Darwin
's Botanic Garden, 1789-91, which she called one of her favourite books. But the little... |
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 |
Textual Production | Anna Seward | AS
published through Joseph JohnsonMemoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin
, chiefly during his residence at Lichfield, with Anecdotes of his Friends, and Criticisms on his Writings. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 236 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Author summary | Anna Seward | AS
, living at a distance from London, was nevertheless a woman of letters, of the later eighteenth century and just beyond. She staked her claim to fame firstly on her poetry (though she was... |
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. 36-7, 71 |
Leisure and Society | Anna Seward | She was a keen concert-goer (partly, no doubt, because of her involvement with the musician John Saville
). She attended music festivals at both Manchester and Birmingham. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 134, 233 |
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. 8 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Seward | With this work appeared AS
's Ode to the Sun. Richard Lovell Edgeworth
later categorically alleged that the best passages in the elegy were in fact written by Erasmus Darwin
, and this story... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | |
Author summary | Frances Arabella Rowden | FAR
, a schoolteacher by profession in the early nineteenth century, published mostly with instruction in mind. She began with a textbook on botany (designed to sanitize that topic after the work of Erasmus Darwin |
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. |
Literary responses | Frances Arabella Rowden | The Anti-Jacobin, while acknowledging that FAR
had avoided Darwin
's faults as far as possible, wished she had not followed him at all. The Poetical Register, however, found her work elegant, and that... |