Avery, Gillian et al. “Selected Bibliography: Sarah Trimmer”. Fabulous Histories; and, The Dairyman’s Daughter, edited by Justin G. Schiller et al., Garland Publishing, p. xiv - xvi.
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Textual Production | Sarah Trimmer | |
Textual Production | Ethel Savi | ES
published a novel entitled Satan Finds, about post-war moral and social issues in rapidly changing Britain. The title is taken from Isaac Watts
's poem Against Idleness and Mischief, one stanza... |
Textual Features | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
opens her story with Jane Fairfax as a little orphan growing up in the family of Colonel and Mrs Campbell, whose naughty daughter Euphrasia is a likable foil to her throughout. She ends it... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | ESR
's friend Lady Hertford
and her admirer Isaac Watts
published, by her desire, the first of her posthumous works: Devout Exercises of the Heart. Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang. 93 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | |
Publishing | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | ESR
often sent her poetry to her friends in the course of her letters. Many poems later included in Letters Moral and Entertaining (published in 1729-32) are to be found in Lady Hertford
's letter-book... |
Reception | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | The same month Benjamin Colman
's tribute was published on the front page of the Boston Weekly News-Letter. Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang. 77 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Regina Maria Roche | The novel, which quotes Isaac Watts
on its title-page and is again set in Ireland, adds gothic touches to a domestic story. While shut up in a country house the heroine reads Richardson
's Clarissa. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Meeke | Amazement quotes Isaac Watts
on its title-page. Its protagonist, Jocelyn, younger brother of an earl, has married a poor woman and left her behind to bear their child while he went to India to make... |
Education | Roxburghe Lothian | RL
learned to read for herself before anyone was prepared to teach her. She had some books already, and when an uncle gave her a sixpence she bought a copy of Isaac Watts
's Hymns... |
Textual Production | Mary Ann Kelty | As the author of The Favourite of Nature, MAK
published her third novel, Trials: A Tale: without dedication this time, but with a quotation on the title-page from Isaac Watts
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 582 Kelty, Mary Ann. Trials: A Tale. Whittaker. prelims |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Heyrick | She does not eschew politics on account of her readers' youth, but delivers an anti-war and anti-imperial message: The finest sight that could possibly be exhibited to me on earth, would be not a great... |
death | Mary Hays | Her funeral was an Anglican service, which, says Marilyn L. Brooks
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, she would not have approved of. But she was buried five days after her death in... |
Textual Features | Hannah Griffitts | HG
admired the English religious writer Isaac Watts
. Much of her poetry and many of her prose essays have religious themes; several are commemorative in function. Her prose can be as imaginative as her... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Taylor Gilbert | These poems follow in the footsteps of Isaac Watts
. |