Jerome McGann

Little is known about Letitia's mother, Catherine Landon , née Bishop.

Again one of Yearsley's most perceptive readers was Anna Seward , who wrote to Helen Maria Williams on Christmas Day 1787 that Yearsley and Burns were both miracles . . . . Perhaps she has...

Elizabeth Isabella Spence , reporting on a visit to Bristol, mentions AY as an example of an obscure woman writer of genius. In 1990 Donna Landry wrote of her complex contradictions under the heading...

Very few copies sold. The single review, recalled by JB as significant, was by the Rev. William Enfield , who wrote in the Monthly Review of November 1791, that the poems were simple, unexaggerated,...

The Critical Review discerned in the collection considerable merit and the hand of genius: so much so that it felt it safe to overlook a few blemishes (though it mentioned some for the sake...

While still anonymous, the author of these poems has attracted appreciation from Isobel Grundy (for smash[ing] so many preconceptions, including the idea that the theme of courtship or seduction belongs to male rather than female...

Critic Jerome McGann enjoys this poem's lovely antitheses, playful surprises, and delicate eroticism,as well as its subtle and significant revision of the critical ideas of Alexander Pope . This combination, he...

Jerome McGann , however, insisted that KR does not overestimate the need to establish Blake's tradition, and agreed with her on the importance of recovering the sources of Blake's special symbolic language to...

Critic Jerome McGann asserts that LR , while making no claim to transcendent poetic power, makes poetry out of her own power to rise above her subject. In this he associates her with Felicia Hemans

The Critical Review praised MR 's brilliancy of fancy, and command of poetical language; but added that the ear is oftener addressed than the heart in her productions. Critic...

Early feminist attention to CR made much of the portrayal of sisterhood in Goblin Market. Jerome McGann inaugurated a burst of important new scholarship on her in The Beauty of Inflections, 1985, and...

Interest in him as a painter and writer has remained fairly steady since his death, increasing after the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood came into greater favour in the later twentieth century. Jerome McGann ...

The resurgance of interest in LEL has led to reprints of her work. Her Critical Writings were published in 1996. Facsimiles have appeared of her most significant works, Ethel Churchill, The Vow of the...

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...

AY 's biographer, Mary Waldron , argues that though willing to exploit the element of pathos in her circumstances in order to advance her sales or her reputation, she presented sorrow or suffering less as...