Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Lucy Hutchinson | The editor of the first, lavishly-produced edition of this history recommended it particularly to female readers, as more entertaining than most novels. He also silently cut from it about 9,000 words, besides tinkering with the... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused 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 |
Textual Production | Hannah More | On 23 June, when the poem was newly written, he requested permission to print these copies, of which she should have half for her own distribution. His correspondence with HM
and with Mary Berry
over... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | More lays her heaviest emphasis on the need for observing propriety. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 195 Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 117 |
Reception | Hannah More | Again this work generated both a flood of praise (much of it in letters, some coming from religious leaders or from royalty) and a storm of criticism and abuse. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 120 |
Health | Amelia Opie | By the time of the Great Exhibition AO
was confined to a wheelchair. She did not, however, allow this to damp her spirits, but is said to have proposed a race with Mary Berry
... |
Friends, Associates | Ann Radcliffe | In later years AR
was a friend of Mary Berry
. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 229-30 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy
, where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron
(Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray
. At London parties... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | The Blackstick Papers treat a wide range of topics; three of the thirteen concern women writers, and the book's frontispiece is from a miniature of Felicia Hemans
. ATR
notes the stoicism Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Blackstick Papers. Books for Libraries Press. 146 |
Textual Production | Lady Rachel Russell | |
Textual Production | Lady Rachel Russell | |
Education | Lady Rachel Russell | Mary Berry
, who wrote that LRR
spent her youth in those occupations which it has been agreed to call the education of females, Berry, Mary, and Lady Rachel Russell. Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. x |
Literary responses | Lady Rachel Russell | As love-letters, they made a great and immediate impression on their readers. Yet later this year Mary Russell Mitford
wrote of LRR
with dislike. Mitford found her heavy, preachy, and prosy. As a writer, she... |
Textual Features | Lady Rachel Russell | Mary Berry
mentions a sort of review of her life written by LRR
in old age, lamenting her lack of fervour in religious belief and particularly her inability to arrive at a perfect state of... |
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