Scott, Mary, and Gae Holladay. The Female Advocate. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Ann Kelty | Her first subject is Princess Charlotte
. After that MAK
includes Henrietta (Mrs James) Fordyce
, whose life had been written by Isabella Kelly
in 1823, and many writers (including Lady Jane Grey
, Lady Rachel Russell |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Marcet | The preface to Conversations on Language mentions JM
's long experience and her popularity with the public to justify her presentation to children of such a complex and difficult subject. In Conversations on the History... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary More | MM
believes that she is saying something new and not commonly known when she argues that male power over women has grown gradually by unjust laws. She sets out by quoting from and commenting on... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Judith Sargent Murray | She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Scott | MS
expands Duncombe's list of Female Geniuses. Scott, Mary, and Gae Holladay. The Female Advocate. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California. iii |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Bradstreet | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Mary Walker | The title character, Eliza de Crui, sets the tone for discussion by writing from Brussels to Mrs Pierpont at Liège with the remark that, since it is so hard to say anything new, she will... |
Textual Production | Germaine de Staël | GS
wrote a drama in verse, Sophie; ou, Les sentimens secrets; she followed this the next year with another verse play, Jane Gray, about the young English scholar and nine-days queen. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg. 31, 118 |
Textual Production | Isabella Neil Harwood | INH
published through Ellis and Green
her first volume of plays (none of which had yet been produced) as Lady Jane Grey
; Inez
, or, The Bride of Portugal under the pseudonym Ross Neil... |
Textual Production | Ellen Wood | EW
, then Ellen Price
, began writing in childhood with compositions that included poetic lives of Lady Jane Grey
and Catherine de Medici
. None of these early works survive. Voller, Jack. “The Ellen Wood (Mrs Henry Wood) Website”. The Literary Gothic: Wood, Ellen Price (Mrs. Henry). |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Some of the fictions relate to philosophical and theological debates of the time; Bigold, Melanie. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Trotter, Carter, and Rowe. |
Textual Features | Susanna Haswell Rowson | This novel covers a historical span from Christopher Columbus
through scenes in New Hampshire in 1645 to the lives of the twin heroine and hero, descendants of Columbus, ten generations after him in Philadelphia in... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | EOB
writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld
for praising Elizabeth Rowe
. She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington
is the real author of... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's various poems about marriage make all the usual points deployed by those writers who set themselves against the current legal drawbacks of marriage for women. She translated Latin epigrams attributed to two famous... |
Textual Features | Susanna Watts | The many pictures in the volume include diagrams of the hold of a slave ship, I & Dash my Dog (a sketch), and prints of Hester Mulso Chapone
, Lady Rachel Russell
(with a copy... |
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