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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 | 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 | Ellen Johnston | Her work garnered considerable response, including many poems of praise and compliment which were printed alongside her own in her later collection. These ranged from a verse proposal of marriage to a poetic tribute asserting... |
Textual Features | Ellen Johnston | EJ
's poems are traditional in form, at times clumsy in their scansion, but often very effective in their use of rhythms and repetitions indebted both to Burns
and to the folk song tradition. Indeed... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Jacson | |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Felicia Hemans | The volume declared itself as juvenilia by noting at the outset that the poems had been composed between the ages of eight and thirteen, and appending to some of them the ages at which they... |
Textual Production | Mary Hays | The publisher was Knott
. The title-page quotes Socrates
and Burns
. The work is dedicated to the Rev. John Disney
. MH
's sister, Eliza or Elizabeth, contributed two Moral Essays. Hays, Mary. Letters and Essays, Moral and Miscellaneous. T. Knott. prelims Feminist Companion Archive. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hamilton | EH
seeks to raise the canonical status of the novel in this work not only by serious politico-philosophical content, but also by chapter-heading quotations from the classics (from Horace
, Shakespeare
, and Milton
to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Janet Hamilton | JH
composed from a young age; between the ages of seventeen and nineteen she produced about twenty pieces of religious poetry. Gilfillan, George, and Janet Hamilton. “Janet Hamilton: Her Life and Poetical Character”. Poems, Sketches, and Essays, James Maclehose, pp. 1-13. 11 |
Textual Production | Janet Hamilton | Although he comments on the defects caused by a lack of classical education, and seems to rate her moral character more highly than her literary ability, Gilfillan
pronounces Hamilton's work to be of uncommon excellence... |
Education | Elizabeth Ham | EH
continued learning throughout her life. She borrowed books whenever an opportunity arose. She discovered Burns
and took him to her heart, and later, with slightly less enthusiasm, Byron
's Childe Harold. Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber. 179 |
Education | Sarah Josepha Hale | |
Friends, Associates | Anne Grant | AG
visited Jean Burns
, the widow of Robert
, in Dumfries. Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, pp. 237-96. 286 |
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