Garside, Peter. “Mrs. Ross and Elizabeth B. Lester: New Attributions”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text.
Mrs Ross
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Standard Name: Ross, Mrs
The still unidentified novelist Mrs Ross
, known only by her surname, published a rush of titles—seven—between 1811 and 1816. Her work is racy, highly-coloured, and heavily moralised. Later works once listed as hers have now been re-attributed to Elizabeth B. Lester
.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Elizabeth B. Lester | Of the anti-Catholic arguments, Peter Garside
(the first to disentangle the identities of these two writers) comments: A far cry from jolly Mrs Ross
! |
| Textual Features | Helen Craik | Authors quoted on HC
's title-page include La Rochefoucauld
. Mary Robinson
's Walsingham is quoted in volume two and supplies the epigraph for volume three. Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, 2001, pp. 193 -2. 228n47 |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth B. Lester | Its title-page quotes from Akenside
, but the tutelary genius of the novel is Shakespeare
, several of whose plays have left their mark on it. The story opens (recalling two of Mrs Ross
's... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth B. Lester | EBL
published two novels: The Quakers, A Tale, which has always been known as hers, and The Bachelor and the Married Man; or, the Equilibrium of "The Balance of Comfort", previously attributed to... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth B. Lester | EBL
published The Physiognomist. A Novel, as the author of The Bachelor and the Married Man; this ensured that it has been usually attributed to Mrs Ross
. Garside, Peter, James Raven, and Rainer Schöwerling, editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000. 2: 464 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth B. Lester | EBL
published her final novel, The Woman of Genius. Its title-page lists no previous work, but a listing elsewhere as by the author of The Bachelor and the Married Man again produced ascription to... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth B. Lester | Critic Peter Garside
, writing in the electronic journal Cardiff Corvey, notes that while the subtitle of The Bachelor and the Married Man links it explicitly with The Balance of Comfort (a novel by... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Meeke | Again publishing in her own name, EM
may have launched a fictional debate on marriage with the lengthily-titled Matrimony, The Height of Bliss, or the Extreme of Misery. A Novel, whose titlepage said 1812... |
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