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Harriet Martineau |
Her subjects in the first essay are Hannah More
(especially her Practical Piety and An Essay on the Character and Practical Writings of Saint Paul) and Anna Letitia Barbauld
, whom she regarded as...
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Henrietta Maria Bowdler |
In this work HMB
warns against improper choice of friends and the excesses of romantic friendship, even while she idealises true friendship. She praises the well-employed talents of Elizabeth Montagu
, Elizabeth Smith
, Hannah More
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Martha Hale |
She writes on public themes with equal panache, attacking colonial appropriations and in another poem calling Warren Hastings
an oppressed hero. She addresses public men and women, and here too is attentive to women's issues...
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Helena Wells |
The body of her work takes up her favourite topic: the difficulties of women as wage-earners—difficulties which impede the progress of my own sex to independence—and what should be done to solve them...
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Clara Balfour |
In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's...
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Mary Ann Kelty |
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Clara Balfour |
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Susan Ferrier |
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Anna Margaretta Larpent |
This diary, covering thirteen years of her later teens and her twenties, provides an annual list of people she spent her time with, public places she visited, and private entertainments she enjoyed. Its criticism, mostly...
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Anna Margaretta Larpent |
This later diary, generally written daily at any odd moment, provides indexing of special events which reveals AML
's methodical character. Occasional months are missing here and there. The diarist offers penetrating comment on a...
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Mary Ann Browne |
Her title poem is rich and dignified, written in Spenser
ian stanzas. The later Ocean is a poem in similar style. Many other pieces are social and sentimental, with titles like Tears, Loves...
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George Eliot |
On 11 February 1848 GE
discusses in a letter to John Sibree
her views on Hannah More
(once admired, now detested as exemplifying the bluestocking woman on display as a kind of freak), Benjamin Disraeli
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Mary Ann Browne |
The poems give little evidence that MAB
at the end of her life shared the sentiments of her editor. In the earlier selection, The Gifted proclaims woe to people of exceptional talent—but its anonymous warning...
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Anne Katharine Elwood |
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Anne Grant |
This contains autobiographical fragments and insightful comments on other women writers. Objects of AG
's comment include Susan Ferrier
, Charlotte Smith
(whose poems AG
felt to be easy, flowing, and correct, but low on...
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