Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | They included public men like George Canning
, John Philpot Curran
, and Lord Erskine
, and writers and theatre people like John Philip Kemble
, George Colman
the younger, dramatist and examiner of plays... |
Literary responses | Anne Marsh | The Spectator, in praising Norman's Bridge, said that the only work to touch it was William Godwin
's Caleb Williams. |
Textual Production | Mrs Martin | The Minerva Press
issued the first novel by the talented but untraced MM
: Deloraine. A Domestic Tale, by a Lady, in two volumes; the preface is signed with her pseudonym, Helen of Herefordshire |
politics | Amelia Opie | Amelia Alderson (later AO
) attended the treason trials at the Old Bailey of Horne Tooke
and Thomas Holcroft
(friends of her family) and other would-be reformers; it was here that she got to know... |
Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | In London she met many artists, writers, and politically active reformists: as well as Godwin
, she met Elizabeth Inchbald
, Mary Wollstonecraft
(who impressed her deeply, and trusted her enough to confide her plans... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amelia Opie | Both Holcroft
(who, four times married and widowed, was now fresh from being arrested for treason and discharged) and Godwin
(while not yet a lover of Wollstonecraft) took a romantic or flirtatious as well as... |
Textual Features | Amelia Opie | Adeline's mother, Mrs Mowbray, is a widowed spoiled child of rich parents. Opie, Amelia. Adeline Mowbray. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press. 8 Opie, Amelia. Adeline Mowbray. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press. 9 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Amelia Opie | Aiming at a reasoned critique, through Adeline and Glenmurray, of Wollstonecraft
's principles, and specifically her relationship with Godwin
, AO
seems to give higher priority to the intensification of her heroine's virtue, self-sacrifice, and... |
Textual Production | Amelia Opie | AO
was an indefatigable letter-writer. Her surviving correspondence at the Huntington Library
includes 331 letters (1794-1850). Most are written by her to her cousin Eliza (Alderson) Briggs
or her husband; a few are from her... |
Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian won for AR
the accolade of praise from Thomas James Matthias
, scholar, editor, and librarian at Buckingham Palace, who invoked the shade of Ariosto
to honour her in the same place... |
politics | Maria Riddell | In June 1795 (the year after reading Godwin
's Political Justice) MR
became involved in a case in which Irish tinkers, threatened with being pressed as vagrants into the British Navy
, had resisted... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Robinson | Robinson found good friends among the male cultural and social leaders with whom she remained free to mix. Her daughter particularly mentions, as well as Sheridan
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Edmund Burke
, and... |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | MS
drafted her second, short novel, Mathilda, about a troubled father-daughter relationship, which has often been traced to her own relations with her father
. Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, pp. 9-45. 44 |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | MS
wrote a brief account of her still-living father
to accompany the Bentley's Standard Novels edition of his Caleb Williams. Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 3, pp. 303-22. 303 Clemit, Patricia. “Mary Shelley and William Godwin: a literary-political partnership, 1823-1836”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 285-95. 291 Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 413-24. 415 |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | In the month of his death, MS
was almost ready to publish her father
's posthumous memoirs, with his letters, and her editing and explanatory notes. Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 3, pp. 303-22. 303 |
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