Robert Bage

Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are, a comedy by EI , opened at Covent Garden .

This is another novel ascribed in earlier sources to Alethea Lewis , and available through Chawton Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. Two plot-elements, indeed, are parallelled in Lewis's life: the motherless heroine, Caroline, and the long-drawn-out...

AL 's dedication to Sir Edward Littleton , Member of Parliament for Stafford, praises him in this capacity and as a landlord. Her subscribers include many friends or relations, as well as writers like...

AT , as the author of Margaret; or, Prejudice at Home, published a novel with a female first-person protagonist, Women as They Are. By One of Them.

The title of CG 's anonymous novel Women as They Are; or, The Manners of the Day, linked it to a reformist tradition running from Robert Bage in 1792, through Barbara Hofland in 1815...

CH anonymously supplied materials for the memoir of Robert Bage that appeared in volume 9 of Scott 's Ballantyne's Novelists' Library; catalogues list the prefatory notices as by Scott.

The title positions the novel in a line running from Robert Bage 's Man As He Is, 1792, and William Godwin 's Caleb Williams; or, Things as They Are, 1794, to Catherine Gore

This remarkable book, a novel of two generations, is unusual in every way. The first heroine has her life is ruined (but not in the predictable way) as a consequence of an early extramarital pregnancy...

The title-page quotes Johnson 's Rambler. This novel opens with fashionable and effective abruptness: What can I do? These words, spoken in a low tone, and followed by a heart rending sigh, broke on...

Allene Gregory , author of an account of English fictional portraits of the French Revolution, describes HC 's politics as Whiggism, conservative when compared with even so mild a radical as Bage , very liberal...

The Italian won for AR the accolade of praise from Thomas James Matthias , scholar, editor, and librarian at Buckingham Palace, who invoked the shade of Ariosto to honour her in the same place...

Its title suggests purposeful allusion to a literary debate about the desirability of change and reform in the world. It specifically suggests allusion to Elizabeth Inchbald 's comedy Wives as They Were, and Maids as...

Felix Holt is set around the time of the Reform Bill of 1832. It is in effect a condition of England novel, and is sometimes considered, despite its early setting, to belong to the cluster...

Again EH takes the radicals as her target. The phrase modern philosophers was in common use: the Gentleman's Magazine had turned it on Mary Wollstonecraft in reviewing her first major political work. Yet Hamilton makes...

Samuel Pipe Wolferstan"s friends included Erasmus Darwin , Anna Seward , Thomas Gisborne , and the novelist Robert Bage . Of EPW 's own friends, Mary Gresley was seriously pursued by her husband before he married Elizabeth.