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...
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 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...
Author summary
Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
SSW
began publishing before the end of the eighteenth century. Books for children were her first market niche: both short fiction and instructional works. She later moved into translation and into other kinds of fiction...
Anthologization
Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
Gary Kelly
includes a facsimile of this work as an example of Street Gothic in his Varieties of Female Gothic, 2002.
Anthologization
Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
SSW
's The White Cottage of the Valley, published with her name but without a date, has as epigraph some lines by Thomas Fitzgerald
about a caged bird, from his poem Bedlam, from...
Anthologization
Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
The White Pilgrim; or, Castle of Olival, published, with SSW
's name, as translated from the popular French novel, Le Pelerin Blanc (by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt
), no doubt stemmed in actuality from...
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
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...
Publishing
Charlotte Smith
A forty-page chapbook abridgement appeared in 1810 as Rayland Hall; or, the Remarkable Adventures of Orlando Somerville. An Original Story (dated from its frontispiece). This is used by Gary Kelly
as an example of Street...
MMS
wrote later, It was a matter of course to me that I was to write, and also a matter of instinct. My head was always busy in inventions, and it was a delight to...
Publishing
Sarah Scott
A fuller title is A Description of Millenium Hall, and the Country Adjacent; Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants, And such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections . . . . The author is described as...
Textual Production
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...
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...
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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.