MC
joined forces with her husband to work as a bookseller (that is publisher) and owner-manager of a circulating library. They seem to have had a close working relationship with Ralph Griffiths
, publisher...
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Mary Collyer
Its publishers, Wilson and Durham
, were business associates of the Collyers. A second edition followed in 1770, and a Garland
facsimile in 1974.
Grossman, Joyce. “Social Protest and the Mid-Century Novel: Mary Collyer’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The History of Betty Barnes</span>”;. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
After working at medicine and teaching, OG
became a hack or low-level professional writer by joining the ranks of the freelances who wrote for Ralph Griffiths
on the Monthly Review. His works of high...
Literary responses
Eliza Haywood
In the Monthly Review, Ralph Griffiths
passed a judgement which was inflected against Betsy Thoughtless by issues of gender. He guessed that the author was female because of the novel's attention to matters of...
Literary responses
Margaret Holford
The Critical Review thought the manners of the East were well caught here (though not its language) and that the young author showed promise of improvement. Arthur Aikin
and Ralph Griffiths
in the Monthly wrote...
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Mary Jones
MJ
wrote to thank Ralph Griffiths
of the Monthly Review for inviting her to participate in some literary venture or other, but she declined the invitation.
Forster, Antonia. Email about Mary Jones to Isobel Grundy.
Catherine Talbot
found Holt Waters and A Letter to Doctor Pitt indelicate and was surprised that Carter
liked MJ
's poetry.
Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press.
183
The collection was warmly praised by Ralph Griffiths
in the Monthly Review:...
Publishing
Elizabeth Moody
EM
sent the Monthly editor, Ralph Griffiths
, a satirical ballad, The Distemper'd Muse, A Poem Address'd to F[ulke] G[reville]
Esq., after Greville had vilified the magazine in print.
Rizzo, Betty. “’Downing Everybody’: Johnson and the Grevilles”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, pp. 17-46.
34-5
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Moody
EM
's early literary friends included Edward Lovibond
, a Surrey poet who (she says in her verse collection) trained her in poetry, George Hardinge
, a distinguished lawyer and also a writer,
Waters, Mary A. British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832. Palgrave Macmillan.
142
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Hardinge
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Elizabeth Moody
There is an unexplained gap in her reviewing between August 1791 and January 1800. Four of her reviews were co-authored: with Ralph Griffiths
, his son George
, or her husband
.
Waters, Mary A. British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832. Palgrave Macmillan.
While staying with her uncle Thomas Bentley at Chelsea, Ann Ward (later AR
) met a number of influential men, most of them with Dissenting connections: Joseph Banks
, George Fordyce
, Ralph Griffiths
,...
Timeline
May 1749: Ralph Griffiths began publishing the Monthly...
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May 1749
Ralph Griffiths
began publishing the Monthly Review.
April 1761-May 1762: Andrew Kippis edited, and Ralph Griffiths...
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April 1761-May 1762
Andrew Kippis
edited, and Ralph Griffiths
published, a periodical called the Library; or, Moral and Critical Magazine.
1845: The Monthly Review finally ceased publishing...
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1845
The Monthly Review finally ceased publishing its latest new series.
Texts
Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.