Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. A New-England Tale. Bliss and White.
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Textual Production | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | CMS
's first novel, A New-England Tale; or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners, was licensed: it appeared anonymously that year, with a title-page stanza from Robert Burns
, dedicated to Maria Edgeworth
. Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. A New-England Tale. Bliss and White. prelims Damon-Bach, Lucinda L., and Victoria Clements, editors. “Editorial Materials”. Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives, Northeastern University Press, p. various pages. xxxv |
Textual Production | Mary Bryan | It was dedicated to James Bedingfield
, and the title page gave her name along with a quotation from Burns
. |
Textual Production | Isabel Pagan | Not all IP
's writing went into her printed volume. She was believed to be the author of two songs which became popular: Crook and Plaid and (the most famous among her works) Ca' the... |
Textual Production | Jackie Kay | |
Textual Production | Jackie Kay | JK
was one of twenty Scottish authors invited to contribute a monologue to a collaborative work entitled Dear Scotland, which was first performed by the Scottish National Theatre
on 24 April 2014 as a... |
Textual Production | Helen Mathers | The book took its title from the popular Robert Burns
song Comin' Thro' the Rye. It was founded on the experience of her own early life, and that of her numerous brothers and sisters... |
Textual Production | Mary Lamb | In her earliest extant letter, to Sarah Stoddart
, Mary Lamb
remarked (quite unfairly to herself): I am always a miserable letter writer, and I feel the want, in writing to a new friend of... |
Textual Production | E. M. Delafield | |
Textual Production | Lesley Storm | LS
returned to her Scottish roots in her historical-biographical play Three Goose Quills and a Knife, a piece that dramatises the adult life of Robert Burns
from his twenties to his death at the... |
Textual Features | Eliza Cook | Her poetic topics strongly reflect her reliance on well-tried promoters of sentiment: death, parting, gypsies, favourite horses and dogs, local feeling for Scotland or Ireland. The collection closes with a section of poems for... |
Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
has no patience with Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
's The Countess and Gertrude or with Byron
's Childe Harold. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 1: 133, 152 |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Titled simply September 2014 and headed with a Gaelic greeting that translates as I love you, this short poem highlights the shared prickliness of the two national symbols and the pilgrimage of an English... |
Textual Features | Catherine Hutton | Jane Oakwood's brother has only one woman author (Elizabeth Inchbald
) in his library; Jane on the other hand is a mine of information and opinion about several generations of a female literary tradition... |
Textual Features | Janet Little | She consistently takes a challenging stance in face of authority. Ironically (in view of Johnson's championing of women writers and Burns's snobbish attitude about herself) she uses Samuel Johnson
as a symbol of the tyrant-critic... |
Textual Features | Isabel Pagan | IP
presents herself jauntily in Account of the Author's Lifetime, the first poem in the volume. When I see merry company, / I sing a song with mirth and glee, / And sometimes I... |
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