Hawkins, Laetitia-Matilda. Memoirs, Anecdotes, Facts and Opinions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, and C. and J. Rivington.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | According to LMH
, her father, the magistrate, musical and biographical writer Sir John Hawkins
, brought up his children not to value themselves at all. Samuel Johnson
later privately criticised the depressing system Hawkins, Laetitia-Matilda. Memoirs, Anecdotes, Facts and Opinions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, and C. and J. Rivington. 1: 219n |
Employer | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | She became amanuensis or secretary for her father
, with only a token wage. But she received £40 for copying and proof-reading his biography of Johnson
. Hawkins, Laetitia-Matilda. Memoirs, Anecdotes, Facts and Opinions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, and C. and J. Rivington. 1: 141 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | Now that Hawkins's father
had died and her time was more her own, she increased her literary rate of production (though this work, at a single volume, was her shortest yet). The first edition of... |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Johnson | Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period... |
Textual Production | Samuel Johnson | The idea that Johnson modelled the tripartite structure of his most substantial lives on a work by Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy
is probably a mistake. The Recueils des plus belles pièces des poëtes François, 1692... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ellis Cornelia Knight | In her introduction toDinarbas, ECK
indicates that her idea for the work arose from Sir John Hawkins
's claim that Samuel Johnson
had intended to write a sequel to Rasselas, in which... |
Reception | Hester Lynch Piozzi | |
Friends, Associates | Anna Williams | Williams enjoyed cordial relations with other members of Johnson's circle, like Elizabeth Carter
(who helped with subscriptions for Williams's book when Johnson was dragging his feet) and Hester Thrale
(who contributed). Carter counted her a... |
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