Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
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Standard Name: Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy
Birth Name: Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Pseudonym: E. Benger
Indexed Name: Elizabeth Ogilvie Benger
Used Form: Miss Benger
EOB
, a writer of the Romantic period, remains best-known for her precocious yet astonishingly mature Female Geniad (a poem celebrating women writers); but her other works in poetry, fiction, history, and memoirs show a steady concern with women's history and women's tradition which is almost equally remarkable.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
under Hayley
Literary responses
Susannah Dobson
The Critical began its notice by praising the extensive research of the original and by condemning its prolixity, a fault now remedied by SD
, who, it says, has told Petrarch's story in a manner...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Smith
Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
paid tribute to Smith's work in her own Klopstock translation, 1812. The old Dictionary of National Biography delivered a gibe which it then apparently retracted: Miss Smith's powers of memory and of...
Literary responses
Sarah Trimmer
ST
's work made a great impact. She was one of the twenty-four most-reviewed women writers of 1789-90.
Hawkins, Ann R., and Stephanie Eckroth, editors. Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Vol. 3 vols., Ashgate Publishing Company.
The young Elizabeth Benger
in her Female Geniad, 1791, called ST
a successor to Dorothy, Lady Pakington
Reception
Mariana Starke
This play was printed just in time for Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
to add a mention of it to The Female Geniad, published by June this year. At this early stage of MS
's career...
Textual Features
Susanna Watts
The many pictures in the volume include diagrams of the hold of a slave ship, I & Dash my Dog (a sketch), and prints of Hester Mulso Chapone
, Lady Rachel Russell
(with a copy...
Textual Production
Lucy Aikin
LA
memoir of Anna Letitia Barbauld
, in her edition of Barbauld's Works, June 1825, represents a well-planned if largely unsuccessful attempt to establish and preserve Barbauld's reputation after systemic attack by political conservatives...
Textual Production
Carola Oman
CO
issued her next historical biography, Elizabeth of Bohemia, about the Scottish-born Electress Palatine who was a great patron and a force in European politics during the seventeenth century.
JP
published in The Literary MagnetSome Particulars Respecting the Life and Character of the Late Miss Benger, a writer with whom she had enjoyed a long and close friendship.
with her name (as Eliza Hamilton). Elizabeth Benger
later wrote (perhaps protectively) that EH
was only reluctantly persuaded to put her name on...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Hamilton
This was published at Bath and London. EH
did serious historical research for this book, reading all the Roman history she could find in English and even commissioning translations.
There was already women's work...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Hamilton
Elizabeth Benger
published her Memoirs of EH
, including much of Hamilton's previously unpublished work, by May 1818. The full title was Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton, with a Selection from Her Correspondence...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sarah Josepha Hale
SJH
does in the main a fine job in her coverage of British women writers, having something to say even about the extremely obscure. Dorothea Primrose Campbell
, for instance (who was living in poverty...