Moira Ferguson

MC was born in Sussex, probably at Lodsworth.

Anne Hart (later AHG ) was born in Antigua, the eldest daughter in a large family.

Her family is untraced. Scholar Moira Ferguson has suggested that she might have altered her name for purposes of concealment, and might in fact have been Margaret Tyrrell . The Oxford Dictionary of National...

Literary admirers of the hymns included Hannah More , Anna Seward , and Elizabeth Carter , who found some passages amazingly sublime. The innumerable children who loved and later remembered them included Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck

Moira Ferguson finds in this text a strong sense of identification with African Caribbean men, women, and children and a recognition of inequities.Sandra Pouchet Paquet argues that its importance lies in its restoration...

JL has received rather less critical attention than many of the English proletarian poets of her century and arguably far less than she deserves. Critic Moira Ferguson rather oddly judges her to have failed in...

Matilda's narrative (addressed to a female friend) opens and dominates the novel. At first she and Ellinor believe that Mrs Marlow, the beautiful, elegant, and femininely helpless woman who brings them up, is their mother...

AHG , a woman of colour, is remarkable not only for the leadership role she took in her Caribbean community during the early nineteenth century, but also for her writings. These (unpublished during her lifetime)...

In this collaborative book, John Gilbert wrote most of the first 26 pages and AHG the next 18 pages. The Wesleyan missionary William Box also had a hand in the story, which was continued past...

Set in British Guiana, this book attacks chattel slavery, the ownership of human beings as property, through its effect on the family because of the prohibition of marriage among slaves. One male character refuses...

As it stands, her text is compatible both with heartfelt outpouring and with rhetorical shaping for maximum impact on readers. The style is stark and emphatic: there was no end to my toils—no end to...

Once the campaign against vivisection became FPC 's ruling passion, much of her writing energies were consumed by it. She herself characterized it as the end of her career as a journalist, owing in part...

AHG wrote a letter which scholar Moira Ferguson has called her History of Methodism.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography suggests that MT may have translated this material for household entertainment as part of her duties in her post of waiting-woman to a noble family. She herself says she...