McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press.
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Richard Gifford
Standard Name: Gifford, Richard
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Frances Brooke | Probably before her marriage, the future FB
began a friendship with Richard Gifford
(1725-1807), who helped her writing with comment and criticism. |
| Textual Production | Frances Brooke | She had contributions from several friends: her husband
, Arthur Murphy
, and Richard Gifford
, and Lord Orrery
, whose annotated copy survives in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
, University of Toronto |
| Textual Production | Frances Brooke | Harvard University
holds the manuscript of a pastoral, a farce, letters. In 2011 Harvard reported that it had digitized twenty-four letters from her to Richard Gifford
(plus letters from Gifford to Brooke, and songs in... |
| Literary responses | Radagunda Roberts | A reviewer (who supposed that the author was male) judged this work a useful further abridgement of an existing abridgement, suitable for young ladies at school. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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