McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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| Reception | Anna Letitia Barbauld | This work was controversial. William Enfield
in the Monthly Review praised it and endorsed its opinions. |
| Reception | Mary Hays | Charles Lamb
's report that MH
composed a piece of poetry for the tomb of her former mentor William Godwin
was a fantasy, part of a letter written in 1815 which presents events in a... |
| 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 |
| Textual Features | Marjorie Bowen | Her Mary Wollstonecraft is a warm-hearted, passionate woman, deserving of praise for surviving her extraordinarily difficult childhood, and for her commitment to making a decent life for herself amid chaotic circumstances. To Bowen, Wollstonecraft's relationship... |
| Textual Features | Isabella Kelly | The title positions the novel in a line running from Robert Bage
's Man As He Is, 1792, and William Godwin
's Caleb Williams; or, Things as They Are, 1794, to Catherine Gore |
| Textual Features | Mary Hays | MH
's preface explains her intention of examining the power of the passions in action, on the model of Godwin
's Caleb Williams. She also compliments Ann Radcliffe
. She defends the worth of... |
| Textual Features | Anna Margaretta Larpent | This later diary, generally written daily at any odd moment, provides indexing of special events which reveals AML
's methodical character. Occasional months are missing here and there. The diarist offers penetrating comment on a... |
| Textual Features | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes Johnson
's Rambler. This novel opens with fashionable and effective abruptness: What can I do? These words, spoken in a low tone, and followed by a heart rending sigh, broke on... |
| Textual Features | Lady Louisa Stuart | |
| Textual Production | Eliza Fenwick | As Lissa Paul has pointed out, she wrote not long after the appearance in earlier 1794 of the Second Report from the Committee of Secrecy, a progress report on government snooping into private affairs... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
submitted the manuscript of A Simple Story to William Godwin
, seeking further criticism. Godwin, William. William Godwin’s Diary. http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search.html. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 43, 67, 94 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Inchbald | Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are, a comedy by EI
, opened at Covent Garden
. The title sounds like an allusion to such radical texts as Robert Bage
's Man... |
| Textual Production | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | This too was written long before publication: in 1801, HMB
said in a preface dated 1819, with the aim of combating the ideas of Godwin
and other Jacobins, and the horrors of the French Revolution... |
| Textual Production | Frances Jacson | This is another novel ascribed in earlier sources to Alethea Lewis
, and available through Chawton
Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. Two plot-elements, indeed, are parallelled in Lewis's life: the motherless heroine, Caroline, and the long-drawn-out... |
| 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... |
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