Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Parsons | Her next child, Mary, was baptised in Plymouth on 30 April 1762, and a son, William, on 13 February 1765. In all she had eight children, five daughters and three sons. All of the sons... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | Having become engaged at sixteen, Matilda Charlotte Jesse
was still very young when she married the Rev. George Lionel Fraser
, who was some years older and was probably at this time vicar of Kinlet... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Tighe | Before she left London, MT
met there her fellow Irish poet Tom Moore
. He subsequently visited her in Dublin and complimented her in verse. She exchanged poems with Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre)
... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Fenwick | EF
was well known to many of the English radicals of the 1790s: besides those already mentioned, she knew Charlotte Smith
and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
. Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press, 2019. 72 |
Friends, Associates | Clara Reeve | Among her friends were Martha Bridgen
(daughter of Samuel Richardson
), Thomas Percy
, and Joseph Cooper Walker Trainer, James, and Clara Reeve. “Introduction”. The Old English Baron, Oxford University Press, 1977. xviii Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Cobbold | EC
corresponded with members of the London scientific intelligentsia: Sir James Edward Smith
, first President of the Linnean Society
(who encouraged Charlotte Smith
to introduce botanical information into her novels, but proved singularly unhelpful... |
Friends, Associates | Robert Southey | Having early in his life admired writers like Mary Wollstonecraft
and Charlotte Smith
, he later numbered women writers such as Anna Eliza Bray
among his close friends. |
Friends, Associates | William Cowper | Notable among Cowper's other friends were the Rev John Newton
(a former slave-trader who since his conversion had become a hellfire Evangelical preacher), Lady Austen
(who set him the writing task commemorated in the title... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs F. C. Patrick | The narrative is at first somewhat flat-footed in its insistence that this is not a novel, but it acquires further flavour whenever the old gentleman telling it becomes self-referential. His daughter, he says, acts the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Radcliffe | The heroine, Adeline, is not merely a poet but also a genius. Her poems are interspersed in the narrative, which is the earliest example of the mature Radcliffe formula with the typical Radcliffe villain, Phillipe... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Loudon | The same year, 1840, JL
issued another book for children: The Young Naturalist's Journey: or the Travels of Agnes Merton with her Mama, a hybrid of entertainment and pedagogy in the style of Charlotte Smith |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Radcliffe | Influences on AR
's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley
's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999. 67 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Hays | Among the book's contents are poems and fiction (including dream visions and an Oriental tale. Titles like Cleora, or the Misery Attending Unsuitable Connections and Josepha, or pernicious Effects of early Indulgence foreground Hays's didactic... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Frederick Clark | Quotations heading chapters come from Milton
and other mostly modern poets, including Charlotte Smith
and Mary Robinson
. Other inset poems may be EFC
's own. McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Judith Sargent Murray | She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism... |