Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot.
1 (no. 1): 4
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Travel | Mary Lamb | Next summer they visited James Burney
(brother of Frances) and his family on the Isle of Wight. In 1804 they economised by going no further than Richmond in Surrey. In June 1807 they... |
Textual Production | Mary Bryan | After her second marriage MB
entertained a wholly new project, the writing of a book of tales and verses designed for children. For this too she solicited Scott's help and patronage, after deciding to shy... |
Textual Features | Mary Bryan | She wrote him long letters, discussing his work and opinions as well as her own, in an elaborately parenthetical and breathless style. The first extant letter begins, Will you pity—I have said—or will you not... |
Reception | Hannah More | From her youth, HM
tended to be regarded as a formidable person. Those describing her reached for martial metaphors. During her lifetime her works aroused intense admiration and opposition. She was one of the twenty-four... |
Publishing | Susanna Centlivre | It was published the following month, ascribed to the Author of The Gamester, Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot. 1 (no. 1): 4 |
Literary responses | Susanna Centlivre | SC
is said to have made a very good living from the theatre in the later years of her career, and to have cannily invested her savings in portable property like jewellery and silverware. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Anna Brownell Jameson | Characteristics of Women was well received as a work of Shakespeare
criticism: reviewers and literary critics placed it alongside the work of Hazlitt
, Coleridge
, and Schlegel
. Desmet, Christy. “’Intercepting the Dew-Drop’: Female Readers and Readings in Anna Jameson’s Shakespearean Criticism”. Women’s Re-Visions of Shakespeare, edited by Marianne Novy, University of Illinois Press, pp. 41-57. 41 |
Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | The book received far less attention than Morgan's other recent publications. William Hazlitt
, however, even though he shared her progressive political stance, rapped her over the knuckles in the Edinburgh Review for presuming to... |
Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | AR
's rival M. G. Lewis
finished reading Udolpho within ten days of its publication, though he had during the same time travelled from England to the Hague. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 93 |
Health | Mary Lamb | Mary herself, her brother Charles, and the general public all accepted that at the moment of the killing she had not known what she was doing. Charles was relieved from nameless fears when a week... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | Visitors to the family included William Wordsworth
, William Hazlitt
, Charles Lamb
, Thomas Holcroft
, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and Maria Edgeworth
. Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses. 27-8 Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown. 40-1 Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge. 11 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | In addition to meeting Dickens
as a result of her theatrical activities, MCC
and her husband met William Hazlitt
through a shared duty of theatre reviewing, and she became friends with Mary Howitt
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Fenwick | Other more or less radical friends of EF
included Thomas Holcroft
, Anne Plumptre
, Elizabeth Benger
, Jane Porter
, Henry Crabb Robinson
, Charles
and Mary Lamb
, and their friend Sarah Stoddart |
Friends, Associates | Leigh Hunt | While serving his sentence in the Surrey Gaol in Horsemonger Lane (missing his family and ill with lung disease caused by confinement), LH
received as visitors Maria Edgeworth
, William Hazlitt
, Jeremy Bentham
,... |
Friends, Associates | John Keats | Keats was taught and was influenced as a young man by Charles Cowden Clarke
. Another important literary friendship was that with Leigh Hunt
, then Percy
and Mary Shelley
and William Hazlitt
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Mary... |