Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009.
201, 207, 210
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Johnson | |
Friends, Associates | Jane Johnson | After JJ
's death, her children Barbara and Robert Augustus (born 1745) became intimates of the Bath poetry circle of Anne, Lady Miller
. Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009. 201, 207, 210 |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Scott | When these two settled at Batheaston, they became part of a circle of women that included friends they had already made: Sarah Fielding, Elizabeth Cutts
, Margaret Riggs
(whose daughter was to continue the... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Seward | Nine years later her meeting with the provincial literary hostess Anne, Lady Miller
, marked the beginning of a wide and deep acquaintance with the literary world beyond Lichfield. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 36-7, 71 |
Friends, Associates | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | Frances Burney
preferred HMB
, as more kind and gentle, to her sister Frances Bowdler. Burney amusingly records a visit by herself, HMB and others, to Lady Miller
of Batheaston on 8 June 1780, when... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Dunlop | The Mitchell Library
in Sydney holds a manuscript album of ED
's poems entitled The Vase comprising Songs for Music and Poems . . . 1814-1866, whose title sounds like an allusion to the... |
Leisure and Society | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
was an active participant in the literary society of London. She recited her own poems to guests at the Royal Institution
, and she ran a literary society called The Attic Chest... |
Publishing | Susannah Gunning | The title-page of this initially three-volume work calls the authors the Miss Minifies of Fairwater in Somersetshire—thus linking their identity with their rank. Gunning, Susannah, and Margaret Minifie. The Histories of Lady Frances S—,— and Lady Caroline S——. R. and J. Dodsley, 1763. title-page |
Textual Features | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | In the society that Morgan depicts, the Irish Catholic gentry are mostly absent, scattered in European exile. The peasantry, dirt-poor but generous-hearted, include Tim O'Leary, schoolmaster of a hedge school, scholar and expert in Irish... |
Textual Features | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The title echoes Les Veillées du Chateau by Genlis
, transposed for middle-class rather than upper-class children. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 324 |
Textual Production | Mrs Martin | This single volume is available from Chawton House LibraryNovels Online at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488.. The title-page quotes Miller (presumably Anne, Lady Miller
, of the Batheaston vase). |
Textual Production | Anna Seward | AS
contributed (by post) a poem, Invocation of the Comic Muse, to the vase of Lady Miller
at Batheaston. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 71 |
Textual Production | Anna Seward | |
Textual Production | Charlotte Smith | It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard
did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children... |
Textual Production | Anna Jane Vardill | AJV
was the second most prolific contributor (after Porden herself) to Eleanor Anne Porden
's Attic Chest during the years of its flourishing, 1808-15. Porden followed the model of Anna, Lady Miller
's Batheaston Vase... |