Reynolds, Frances. “Recollections of Dr. Johnson”. Johnsonian Miscellanies, edited by George Birkbeck Hill and George Birkbeck Hill, Clarendon Press, pp. 2: 250 - 300.
2: 252
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Textual Features | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes James Montgomery
. The story, set in the seventeenth century, opens as Iwanowna marries Frederic Moldovani on her nineteenth birthday. News of his death closes the first volume; but tragedy is held... |
Textual Features | Frances Reynolds | FR
pays particular attention to his relations with women, individually and in general: Johnson set a higher value upon female friendship than, perhaps, most men. Reynolds, Frances. “Recollections of Dr. Johnson”. Johnsonian Miscellanies, edited by George Birkbeck Hill and George Birkbeck Hill, Clarendon Press, pp. 2: 250 - 300. 2: 252 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Carter | As a youngster of twenty-one (in May 1739), EC
addressed the eminent businessman Edward Cavebreezily, mingling the domestic and the literary. Chisholm, Kate. “Bluestocking Feminism”. New Rambler, pp. 60-6. 63 |
Textual Features | Anita Brookner | AB
addresses her topic with gusto: The slashing and irreverent critics, often totally unqualified and inaccurate, now stand before us slightly scarred by the verdicts of posterity. Brookner, Anita. The Genius of the Future. Phaidon. 2 Not a historian of literature so much... |
Textual Features | Lady Mary Walker | The title character, Eliza de Crui, sets the tone for discussion by writing from Brussels to Mrs Pierpont at Liège with the remark that, since it is so hard to say anything new, she will... |
Reception | Susanna Haswell Rowson | She was one of the twenty-four most-reviewed women writers of 1789-90. Hawkins, Ann R., and Stephanie Eckroth, editors. Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Vol. 3 vols., Ashgate Publishing Company. |
Reception | Joanna Baillie | Charles Landseer
(brother of Sir Edwin Landseer
) exhibited at the Royal Academy
a painting from JB
's De Monfort; he had already painted Samuel Richardson
's Clarissa. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 511 |
Reception | Anna Seward | |
Reception | Teresia Constantia Phillips | An outcry greeted the publication, and pamphlets of attack and defence followed. The Gentleman's Magazine printed two anonymous epistles addresssed to TCP
in August. After the second volume appeared, Henry Muilman
made an attempt to... |
Reception | Eliza Haywood | EH
's reputation during her lifetime and immediately afterwards (bolstered by Pope's image of her in the Dunciad) was of the quintessential practitioner of the novel, seen as low-grade entertainment both intellectually and morally... |
Reception | Elizabeth Hervey | It has been until recently a given of literary history that William Beckford
had his half-sister in his sights in his two burlesques on women's novel-writing. The title-page of the first quotes Pope
, thus... |
Reception | Mary Davys | One contemporary reader recorded in a couplet the conviction that Familiar Letters ends with the two correspondents heading for marriage. Recent readers (as represented by editor Martha Bowden
and several classes of students) are more... |
Publishing | Mary Chandler | Samuel Richardson
, in London, did another anonymous printing of MC
's A Description of Bath. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. (September 1734): 51 |
Publishing | Mary Chandler | She dedicated it to her doctor brother John
, saying it was you first gave me Courage to appear abroad— Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, pp. 33-49. 36 |
Publishing | Frances Sheridan | Publisher Robert Dodsley
rejected FS
's romance Eugenia and Adelaide, which had been submitted to him through the good offices of Samuel Richardson
. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press. x |
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