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
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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
's friendships with women writers (besides Morgan) would surprise anyone not taking her seriously as a writer. When Germaine de Staël
visited England, Lady Caroline was delighted to find her wearing a hat with... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | One of those prepared to welcome her was Elizabeth Benger
, who invited the brother and sister to tea, and was keen to get them back again to meet Jane
and Anna Maria Porter
... |
| Literary responses | Anne-Thérèse de Lambert | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
admired this work. |
| Leisure and Society | Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny | Her patronage of authors shows up in subscriptions and dedications. She subscribed to works by Mary Deverell
, Isabella Kelly
, Eliza Parsons
, Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
, and no doubt many more. Many of... |
| 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. Elizabeth Hamilton
had planned... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Amelia Opie | Both in an Address to the Editor and in a series of explanatory footnotes, AO
positions herself on the one hand as a historian with a proper regard for available evidence, and on the other... |
| Textual Production | Jane Porter | 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. McLean, Thomas. “Jane Porter’s Later Works, 18251846”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 20 , No. 2, pp. 45-62. 52 |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Porter | The Porters' mother lived a busy social life on limited means, and JP
kept up this tradition. Sir Walter Scott
was an early friend. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 265 |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | EIS
says that her early friendship with Jane
and Anna Maria Porter
was inherited, developing from the friendship between their parents, Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 325-6 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Anna Maria Porter |
| 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 Production | Anne Steele | This poem stands second in the manuscript volume Poems by Mary Steele in her youth, which is among her papers, now STE 5/5 in the Angus Library
at Regent's Park College, Oxford University
... |
| Friends, Associates | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | In London in 1824 she had a socially unsuccessful meeting with Wordsworth
, who was by now a thorough reactionary in politics. He went to some pains to snub her; she refused to notice this... |
| 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. |
| 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... |
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