Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Summer Excursions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809.
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Family and Intimate relationships | L. E. L. | Little is known about Letitia's mother, Catherine Landon
, née Bishop. Glennis Stephenson (later Byron)
spells the name in her biography and in the ODNB with a C; Jerome McGann
and Daniel Riess
spell... |
Literary responses | Ann Yearsley | 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... |
Literary responses | Ann Yearsley | Elizabeth Isabella Spence
, reporting on a visit to Bristol, mentions AY
as an example of an obscure woman writer of genius. Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Summer Excursions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. 71 |
Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | Very few copies sold. Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1 - 25. 3 |
Literary responses | Ann Batten Cristall | 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... |
Literary responses | Martha Fowke | 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... |
Literary responses | Martha Fowke | 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
. McGann, Jerome. The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style. Clarendon, 1996. 44 |
Literary responses | Kathleen Raine | Jerome McGann
, however, insisted that KR
does not overestimate the need to establish Blake's tradition, Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981. 46: 317 |
Literary responses | Laura Riding | 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 |
Literary responses | Mary Robinson | 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. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2nd ser. 19 (1797): 114 |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | 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... |
Occupation | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 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
... |
Publishing | L. E. L. | The resurgance of interest in LEL has led to reprints of her work. Her Critical Writings were published in 1996. L. E. L.,. Critical Writings by Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Sypher, Francis JacquesEditor , Scholar’s Facsimilies and Reprints, 1996. |
Reception | Felicia Hemans | 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... |
Textual Features | Ann Yearsley | 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... |
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