Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Elizabeth Hervey
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Standard Name: Hervey, Elizabeth,, 1748 - 1820
Birth Name: Elizabeth Marsh
Pseudonym: The Author of Melissa and Marcia
Married Name: Elizabeth Harvie
Elizabeth Hervey
was the author of six novels published between 1788 and 1814, besides one more, extant in a carefully-bound manuscript, which never reached print. They have something in them of sentiment and something of satire; one has links with the Irish nationalist movement. Her reputation has been overshadowed by her half-brother William Beckford
's two spoofs on the popular novel, which are far less directly connected with her writing than has been supposed.
The novelist Elizabeth Hervey
, whose writing WB
apparently scorned, was his legitimate elder half-sister, his mother's daughter by a previous marriage.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
After 31 March 1796: William Beckford burlesqued women writers...
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After 31 March 1796
William Beckford
burlesqued women writers and attacked reactionary government in his novelModern Novel Writing, or the Elegant Enthusiast; and Interesting Emotions of Arabella Bloomville. A Rhapsodical Romance; Interspersed with Poetry, published as Lady Harriet Marlow.
By 22 July 1797: William Beckford published a second and more...
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By 22 July 1797
William Beckford
published a second and more marked burlesque attack on women's writing: Azemia: A Descriptive and Sentimental Novel. Interspersed with Pieces of Poetry.
Texts
Hervey, Elizabeth. Amabel; or, Memoirs of A Woman of Fashion. Colburn, 1814.
Hervey, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The History of Ned Evans (1796), edited by Helena Kelly, Pickering and Chatto, 2010, p. vii - xxii.
Hervey, Elizabeth. Louisa. A Novel. T. Hookham, 1790.
Hervey, Elizabeth. Melissa and Marcia; or, the Sisters: A Novel. William Lane, 1788.
Hervey, Elizabeth. The Church of St. Siffrid. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797.
Hervey, Elizabeth. The History of Ned Evans. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796.
Hervey, Elizabeth. The History of Ned Evans. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797.
Hervey, Elizabeth. The History of the Mourtray Family. A Novel. R. Faulder, 1800.