Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Sketches of the Present Manners, Customs, and Scenery of Scotland. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | Original poems (sonnets, songs, ballads, occasional pieces) as well as more translations (from Latin, represented by Horace
, as well as from Italian) occupy the latter part of volume two. Many of the occasional poems... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Caroline Lamb | The title-page of volume one of Graham Hamilton quotes Burns
; the second quotes Swift
denouncing scandal. Though quieter, this novel again displays splendid satirical energy. It contains only one lyric (written by Nathan for... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare
, Milton
, Pope
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, William Mason
, John Langhorne
, Burns
, Erasmus Darwin
, Edward Young |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | The title-page quotes Burns
and Scott
. The preface remarks that books based on female impressions of national manners and moral character have succeeded in the past. |
| Leisure and Society | Queen Victoria | Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson
, Sir Walter Scott
, George Eliot
(whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin. 116 |
| Literary responses | Eliza Cook | Under this misapprehension about their origin, readers singled out for praise the originality of the voice, energy of the style, and optimism of the tone, and likened the poems to those of Robert Burns
. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Miles, Alfred H. The Victorian Poets: The Bio-Critical Introductions to the Victorian Poets from A. H. Miles’s The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Editor Fredeman, William E., Garland. 271 |
| Literary responses | Florence Dixie | This book was widely reviewed in provincial and even American as well as London papers. The Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard called it a real, living, human production, and one which must ever be... |
| Literary responses | Janet Little | Frances Anna Dunlop
made her final mention of JL
in her correspondence with Burns
: a fierce reproof for his contemptuous response to Little's Poetical Works. Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, Hodder and Stoughton, http://BARD. 378-81 |
| Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | One of these Scots songs, the humorous Fee him, father, fee him, written for her friend and fellow-author Fanny Head
of Ashfield in Devon, was early enough to be admired by Burns
. Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-25. 12 |
| Literary responses | Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne | Some nineteenth-century commentators made high claims for COLN
, ranking her close to Burns
himself (though Burns scholars have found it hard to forgive her unacted-on intention of producing a bowdlerised edition of Burns). She... |
| Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | The Eclectic Magazine raised her confidence about her Scots songs by pronouncing that she was easily the equal in the genre of Scott
or Campbell
, and inferior only to Burns
himself. Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-25. 13 |
| Literary responses | Janet Little | For more than four years, from December 1788 to March 1793, Frances Anna Dunlop
peppered her letters to Burns
with comments about JL
's poetry, and sought to elicit criticism in return. When Burns first... |
| Literary responses | Susanna Blamire | In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
| Literary responses | Janet Little | Dunlop
wrote, Methinks I hear you ask me with an air that made me feel as I had got a slap in the face, if you must read all the few lines I had pointed... |
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