Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
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Author summary | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | BBBD
wrote as an amateur in the Romantic period. She wrote dramatic works, mostly tragedies, often adapted from texts by other authors, and poems, mostly occasional verse and often translated from poems by others. Her... |
Publishing | Maria Callcott | She may have translated into English parts of the Essays on Petrarch which Ugo Foscolo
privately published (in only sixteen copies) through Bentley
on 1 May 1821 after being outraged by changes made in translation... |
Publishing | Anna Hume | Evan Tyler
, the King's Printer at Edinburgh, issued, with her name, AH
's The Triumphs of Love: Chastitie: Death: Translated out of Petrarch. The date comes from George Thomason
's annotation. Since... |
Reception | Sarah Lewis | SL
's eclipse into relative obscurity is attributable to a number of factors, and raises the question to what degree she deserved the praise she received. One critic remarks that her fame . .... |
Textual Features | Anne Evans | Her sonnets (always Petrarch
an in form) are similarly melancholy. Here she balances the inevitability of earthly suffering with the insufficiency of many earthly goals: why must one live and labour and wax old /... |
Textual Features | Mary Charlton | MC
's targets are the same as those of Jane Austen
's juvenilia: the motifs and the hyperbole of sentimental and gothic novels. It is not her heroine but her heroine's mother who is led... |
Textual Features | Catherine Talbot | It concludes that her heart will forever conceal that it drags in reasons Spite / an Heavy, Hopeless Chain. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 219 |
Textual Features | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | The plays included are four: Gonzalvo of Cordova, Pedarias, Ina, and Xarifa. A Tragic Drama. Dacre restored the cuts made to Ina for staging, including the original version of the ending... |
Textual Features | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | |
Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | This time MRM
's setting was fourteenth-century Rome. Rienzi was a friend of Petrarch
. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 31 |
Textual Features | Anna Jane Vardill | AJV
translates from Sappho
, Anacreon
, Alcæus
, Theocritus
, Horace
, and more recent poets: Petrarch
and Camoens
. She includes several charity poems: the one already published in aid of the Refuge for the Destitute |
Textual Features | Mary Robinson | The poems include an Ode to Genius (which implicitly claims that status), Petrarch
to Laura (which woos a woman in a male voice), and a piece responding to Hannah Cowley
's expression of disbelief that... |
Textual Production | Mona Caird | One of MC
's best-known novels appeared: The Daughters of Danaus (the first novel among the selection mentioned in the Times after her death, and reprinted by the Feminist Press
in 1989). In Greek mythology... |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | In 1856, CR
published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York. Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne. 100 Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 176-9 |
Textual Production | Germaine Greer | GG
has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings
, Jeslyn Medoff
and Melinda Sansone
), Kissing the Rod, has played an... |
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