Baillie's preface explicitly denies that she was influenced by (even that she had read) German tragedians, while implicitly calling attention to the similarities in style and subject-matter between her work and theirs: for instance between...
Intertextuality and Influence
Eliza Kirkham Mathews
The novel which emerged from so much interference during composition is naive, exaggerated, and badly structured, but highly unusual, with great intensity in its writing. Its title-page quotes Thomas Holcroft
, and its epigraphs to...
Friends, Associates
Anne Plumptre
Elizabeth Inchbald
had written in veiled terms to Morgan
before the latter's marriage of her own brief and unhappy acquaintance (something like patronage) withAP
. This experience (which, she says, was well known to...
