Gilfillan, George, and Janet Hamilton. “Janet Hamilton: Her Life and Poetical Character”. Poems, Sketches, and Essays, James Maclehose, pp. 1-13.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Janet Little | In her letter to Burns, Mrs Dunlop emphasises JL
's intellect rather than her appearance: Her outside promises nothing; her mind only bursts forth on paper. Burns, Robert, and Frances Anna Dunlop. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. Editor Wallace, William, Hodder and Stoughton, http://BARD. 185 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Stickney Ellis | In her preface to the poem she outlines theories of poetry, taking much the same approach towards it that she had towards fiction: that verse, like prose, would benefit from attention to simple, everyday life... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Craik | In this month Burns
wrote to her about correcting and revising her manuscript. Burns, Robert. The Letters of Robert Burns. Editor Ferguson, J. De Lancey, Clarendon Press. 104 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | E. Nesbit | The dream poems combine the qualities of horror and of nursery-rhyme. The second one begins, Mr Oddy / Met a body / Hanging from a tree, Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 385 |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Ann Yearsley | Again one of Yearsley's most perceptive readers was Anna Seward
, who wrote to Helen Maria Williams
on Christmas Day 1787 that Yearsley and Burns
were both miracles . . . . Perhaps she has... |
| Literary responses | Isabel Pagan | Critic Kirsteen McCue
has examined the issued involved in the dispute over whether Burns
or Pagan was the author of the song, and over which was the first to convey it to print. McCue, Kirsteen. “Burns, Women and Song”. Robert Burns and Cultural Authority, edited by Robert Crawford, University of Iowa Press, pp. 40-57. |
| Literary responses | Jean Plaidy | Irish critic Colm Tóibín
, who at fourteen used to pretend to be the doomed, charismatic queen, feels that of all the many writers who have treated Mary in fiction, from Burns
, Wordsworth
... |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
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