Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. A New-England Tale. Bliss and White.
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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... |
Textual Features | Ali Smith | The arborist re-reads Oliver Twist alongside their partner's lectures and urges the partner to consider discussing the musical form of the novel (a request accommodated, as the academic threads it in alongside Auld Lang Syne... |
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 |
Literary responses | Dora Sigerson | A central figure in both Irish and English literary circles as well as in Irish politics, DS
sought, through writing ballads, to recuperate the lost tradition of Irish balladry and folklore while simultaneously addressing the... |
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 |
Publishing | Maria Riddell | Burns
returned the loan of MR
's commonplace-book, which he had read, he said, with much pleasure, MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press. 52 |
Publishing | Maria Riddell | MR
's perceptive and generous analysis and appreciation of Burns
's character and writings appeared anonymously in the Dumfries Weekly Journal only a fortnight after his death. Brown, Hilton. There Was a Lad. An Essay on Robert Burns. Hamish Hamilton. 42 MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press. 82 |
Author summary | Maria Riddell | MR
was a talented amateur poet, diarist, letter-writer, and writer for children during the Romantic period. She published in 1788 a travel book about the Caribbean which is remarkable for its scientific observation, a critical... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Riddell | MR
's brother-in-law Robert Riddell of Glenriddell
, who lived at Friar's Carse in Dumfries, was to shape her life through his literary antiquarianism and especially through his friendship with Robert Burns
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Lindsay, Maurice. The Burns Encyclopedia. St Martin’s Press. 301 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Riddell | In the public mind MR
is remembered primarily as a friend of Robert Burns
. She first met him in late 1791. They soon developed a free-and-easy, bantering, affectionate correspondence. It was not exclusively literary... |
Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | As a friend rather than a lover, Burns
was crucially helpful to MR
. He first put her in touch with the printer, intellectual, and naturalist William Smellie
, who published her work and became... |
Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | |
Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | During the last months of Burns
's life, Riddell was again sending him her verses to read. He dined at her house, though too weak to walk, on 5 July 1796, and asked her sardonically... |
Anthologization | Maria Riddell | In 1793 Burns
was soliciting from MR
a song for the antiquarian anthologist George Thomson
(presumably for A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs, which began publication this year). In summer 1795 she sent... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Riddell | Robert Burns
helped her to achieve publication, writing to the Edinburgh printer and man of letters William Smellie
on 22 January 1792 that her poems were always correct and sometimes elegant, very much beyond the... |
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