Thomas Campbell

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Standard Name: Campbell, Thomas,, 1777 - 1844

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Textual Production Margaret Holford
It appears that by late August 1824 Holford had written a tragedy, as yet unperformed and unpublished, from which she wished Thomas Campbell to make extracts for appearing in the New Monthly Magazine, of...
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
The Lady's Magazine published MRM 's Landscape Sketches, the germ of her later, famous Our Village.
Some sources mistakenly give date as 1819. According to Vera Watson , MRM 's diary proves that...
Textual Production Anna Jane Vardill
The popularity of this formula had endured for generations, from Mark Akenside (The Pleasures of Imagination, 1744) and Thomas Warton (The Pleasures of Melancholy, 1747), through Samuel Rogers (The Pleasures...
Textual Production Ann Hatton
AH sent off family reminiscences designed for insertion in Thomas Campbell 's life of her sister Sarah Siddons (a work which was published in 1834).
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Textual Features Susanna Watts
The title-page quotes Pope , who also (with his Messiah) stands first among the contents. Some pieces are unascribed; others are by Byron (The Isles of Greece), Jane Taylor (The Squire's...
Residence Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
She had been becoming more and more unhappy with developments in Dublin. Earlier that year the poet Thomas Campbell had written to express his hope that you are really coming like a rational woman among...
Reception Frances Arabella Rowden
Rowden's poem was reviewed by the Critical (3rd series 20 (May 1810): 112). Mary Russell Mitford read the first canto with high appreciation and admiration that increase[d] with every perusal. She expected it to rank...
Publishing Maria Abdy
MA 's husband, the Reverend John Channing , encouraged her to submit poems to the New Monthly Magazine. These appeared under her initials.
Ashfield, Andrew, editor. Romantic Women Poets. Manchester University Press.
2: 178
She also contributed to the Metropolitan (edited by Thomas Campbell
Publishing Mary Russell Mitford
Thomas Campbell published four of MRM 's earliest sketches in the New Monthly Magazine.
Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 110. Gale Research.
110: 201
Publishing Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
It is a point of debate among scholars whether Blessington saw and used the memoirs of himself which Byron wrote but later burned.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114.
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Later editions include those of 1893 and 1969 (the former mangles...
Publishing Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This poem initiated the theme of love of liberty and hatred of political oppression that was to recur in her later work, as well as the veneration for the high calling of poetry that inspired...
Publishing Caroline Clive
Even before her first publication the future CC had sent specimens of her poetry, under the name of George Ferrol or P. Ferrol, to literary men and potential patrons. But Isaac D'Israeli , Dugald Stewart
Literary responses Joanna Baillie
The Eclectic Magazine raised her confidence about her Scots songs by pronouncing that she was easily the equal in the genre of Scott or Campbell , and inferior only to Burns himself.
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-25.
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Literary responses Jane Porter
JP 's use of historical figures and her descriptions of the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794 made many readers suppose that the first volume especially was history, not fiction. A friend of the family felt sure...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Ann Kelty
The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen , though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau on the topic of the sensitive...

Timeline

27 April 1799: The Irish poet Thomas Campbell, aged twenty-one,...

Writing climate item

27 April 1799

The Irish poet Thomas Campbell , aged twenty-one, published a poem entitled The Pleasures of Hope (on the model of The Pleasures of Memory by Samuel Rogers , 1792).

3 December 1800: At Hohenlinden in Bavaria the French imperial...

National or international item

3 December 1800

At Hohenlinden in Bavaria the French imperial army and its Bavarian allies inflicted defeat on the Austrians: a battle commemorated by the poet Thomas Campbell and the novelist Jemima Tautphoeus .

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