Anna Aikin (later ALB
) joined with her brother John
in Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose, in which her seven contributions and his four were not distinguished by name.
The tale of Sir Bertrand (part...
Textual Production
Mary Wollstonecraft
Many critics describe this as a travel book: the first one by a Romantic writer to deal with the exotic North. Critic Gary Kelly
, however, says that it purports
Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan.
177
to be a travel...
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Clara Reeve
This work represents the genre of enlightenment gothic in Gary Kelly
's 6-volume Pickering and Chatto
edited collection Varieties of Female Gothic, 2001.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Varieties of Female Gothic. Pickering and Chatto.
Reeve issued it for the author (that is at her own...
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Mary Hays
Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women by MH
was anonymously published.
Gary Kelly
speculates that Felicia Browne may have been the translator (signing F. B.) of Italian patriot and political exile Ugo Foscolo
's autobiographical novel Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis in 1812.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, pp. 12 - 89; various pages.
21
A...
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Clara Reeve
Attention has been drawn to this text, now very rare, by Gary Kelly
. A copy survives at the University of Alberta
.
Kelly, Gary. “Clara Reeve, Provincial Bluestocking: From the Old Whigs to the Modern Liberal State”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, pp. 105-25.
120 and n35
Textual Features
Mary Wollstonecraft
MW
structured her book in the popular form of interaction between children and a female pedagogue, here Mrs Mason, a distant relative who takes on the education of two girls out of compassion for the...
Textual Features
Clara Reeve
The story is set in late feudal times, and the action carried by male characters, while women are insignificant. Nevertheless several of its themes, like unjust exclusion from succession or inheritance, lend themselves readily to...
Textual Features
Felicia Hemans
This poem, in the view of Gary Kelly
, articulates a liberal reformist programme that, by suggesting that the acquisition and exhibition of the marbles by Britain would place the artistic expression of Athenian republican...
Reception
Mary Wollstonecraft
US art critic and author Elizabeth Robins Pennell
, at the very beginning of her career, published at Boston her Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (which a modern critic, Gary Kelly
, singles out as the...
Reception
Felicia Hemans
FH
was slow to register on the radar of recuperative feminist critics. Cora Kaplan
was an early exception in her anthology Salt and Bitter and Good, 1975.Margaret Homans
in her early attempt to...
Reception
Catherine Talbot
Present-day critics like Stuart Curran
think highly of CT
as a poet. Rhoda Zuk
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography praises her as a feminist and a rational moralist, and argues that the dismissal...
Publishing
Elizabeth Montagu
EM
occupies volume one of Pickering and Chatto
's Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-1790 (general editor Gary Kelly
, published in 1999), with the Essay on Shakespear, the published dialogues of...
Publishing
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
She wrote it while a member of the Marquess of Abercorn
''s household, where she read it aloud in the evenings to less than informed criticism. As before, she and Phillips
could not agree on...
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Texts
Kelly, Gary, editor. Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-1790. Pickering and Chatto, 1999.
Kelly, Gary. “Clara Reeve, Provincial Bluestocking: From the Old Whigs to the Modern Liberal State”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 105-25.
Kelly, Gary, and Matt Ogle. “Converging Research and Teaching: StreetPrint—A Digital Archive of Street Literature”. COCH/COSH, Congress 2003, Halifax, NS.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary; and, The Wrongs of Woman, edited by Gary Kelly, Oxford University Press, 1980, p. vii - xxviii.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, 2002, pp. 12 - 89; various pages.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. Mary; and, The Wrongs of Woman. Editor Kelly, Gary, Oxford University Press, 1980.
Kelly, Gary. Oral Communication with Isobel Grundy.
Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan, 1992.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Varieties of Female Gothic. Pickering and Chatto, 2002.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.