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Publishing | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | A Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron
with the Countess of Blessington appeared in the New Monthly Magazine. Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey. 219 |
Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | Conversations of Lord Byron
with the Countess of Blessington appeared in volume form. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 3 Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press. 149 |
Author summary | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | Marguerite Blessington
wrote non-fiction, poetry, and novels, many of them in the silver-fork category. Although she was a popular novelist in her day, well reviewed and respected by a number of other writers, her account... |
Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | When she approached the New Monthly Magazine as a prospective contributor, assistant editor S. C. Hall
rejected the topics she proposed, and suggested that she should write on Byron
. She based her work on... |
Wealth and Poverty | Anne Marsh | Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. Heath-Caldwell, J. J. “Letters, References and Notes (1780-1874), Relating to James Caldwell and Anne Marsh (Marsh-Caldwell)”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell. 1839-1842 |
Textual Features | Una Marson | |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | Anna Letitia Barbauld
visited HM
's mother from time to time. HM was impressed by the stamp of superiority on all she said. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 1: 302 |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | The Athenæum compared this novel favourably to the work of Jane Austen
, saying that HM
outstripped her predecessor in creating characters of a higher order of mental force and spiritual attainment, and offering to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Martineau | Among her subjects are Lady Byron
(an occasion for HM
to deplore Byron
's conduct and influence), Mary Berry
, Mary Russell Mitford
, Charlotte Brontë
, Jane Marcet
, Amelia Opie
, Mary Somerville |
Intertextuality and Influence | Louisa Anne Meredith | Most of the section called Poems, as well as some other pieces, describe flowers or other features of the natural world. Nature and poetry (which is celebrated in the opening Invocation to Song)... |
Fictionalization | Anna Miller | |
Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
began her verse tragedy Foscari in 1821, after the rejection of Fiesco, and was horrified to discover that Byron
had just published The Two Foscari. Quarterly Review. J. Murray. Quarterly 35 (1927): 317 |
Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
has no patience with Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
's The Countess and Gertrude or with Byron
's Childe Harold. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 1: 133, 152 |
Publishing | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Byron
(an admirer of Montagu's writing) came on some of her letters to Algarotti in Venice in the early nineteenth century, but his efforts to get John Murray
to publish them came to nothing. A... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | The term bluestocking very quickly came to imply dismissiveness, if not actual disapproval and contempt. The first to use it pejoratively may well have been, as Gary Kelly
has suggested, those who felt threatened or... |
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