Grant, Anne. Poems on Various Subjects. Printed for the Author by J. Moir, 1803.
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Education | Georgiana Fullerton | She could read by four-and-a-half, and recalls an early admiration for hymns by Anna Letitia Barbauld
and Maria Edgeworth
. Julius Cæsar, the first Shakespearean
play that she saw, left a lasting impression. Later... |
Education | Lady Louisa Stuart | LLS
grew up under her mother's eye, and was educated through both reading and social contact. She later remembered reading Henry Mackenzie
's The Man of Feeling at fourteen and fearing she might not cry... |
Friends, Associates | Martha Fowke | She formed close links with a group of male poets who held opposition political views: James Thomson
, Aaron Hill
(who was corresponding with her by June 1721), Richard Savage
(with whom she was exchanging... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | When it was printed, each of its five parts was headed with a prose Argument. In a style reminiscent of James Thomson
(whose name is invoked Grant, Anne. Poems on Various Subjects. Printed for the Author by J. Moir, 1803. 40 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Plumptre | AP
quotes Pope
on her title-page (about indifference to fame) and Shakespeare
, Thomson
, Savage
, and others as chapter-headings. She sets her novel around the lakes of Killarney in Ireland. Antonia is... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Boyd | A first prologue addresses Pope
, and invokes the ghosts of Shakespeare
(The Wonder, as the Glory of the Land) and Dryden
(Shakespear's Freind) as mentors to EB
's performance in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Harvey | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Brooke | Brooke's preface said she had drawn on the book of Ruth, on the Palemon and Lavinia inset story in James Thomson
's Seasons, and on an opera by Favart
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 55 (1783): 152 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Strutt | The title-page quotes Shakespeare
: later on Pope
, Thomson
, Thomas Tickell
, Charles Cotton
, and others are quoted too. Characters include a seducer and promiser-breaker who dies in a duel. The central... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Medora Gordon Byron | Alexander Pope
is quoted on the title-page (An Essay on Criticism), James Thomson
at the head of the first chapter, John Langhorne
for another chapter. The novel opens in the new style of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Helme | The title-page bears some lines from James Thomson
beginning Ye good distrest! / Ye noble few!, which assure the good that their earthly trials and sufferings will be brief. Helme, Elizabeth. Louisa. G. Kearsley, 1787. title-page |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Helme | Meanwhile in volume one, after the mother and daughter meet in ignorance of their relationship, they exchange somewhat similar histories of being orphaned (or supposedly orphaned), threatened with sexual violence, and undergoing actually violent emotional... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | She dedicated the volume to Jane, Duchess of Gordon
. Gordon was well known as a social and political mover. Her reputation included great beauty, quick repartee, excellent business sense, astute match-making, and also coarse... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Helme | The title-page bears an epigraph from James Thomson
, about the moral struggle of honour and aspiration against ease and luxury. It opens on an old-fashioned couple in their great Yorkshire house, Mr and Mrs... |