Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
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Education | Ann Fisher | It is not known where or how AF
acquired an education, but she certainly did so, to a far higher level than was normal for people of her class, regardless of their gender. She had... |
Education | Anne Grant | Of her childhood, AG
wrote that she developed early powers of imagination and memory, but received little attention: no one fondled or caressed me . . . I did not till the sixth year of... |
Education | Sarah Josepha Hale | |
Education | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Because of her mother's early death, MBE
, she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893. 124 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | A son, John, born early in 1728 lived only a month. Then came Spencer, born just over a year later, who rose in the Church to become a bishop, and lived until 1813; Penelope, born... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Lady Mary claimed that at every stage of her life she picked a few intimate friends and cared little for the opinions of anyone else. She always retained the highest opinion of her father's and... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Brereton | In her youth JB
knew |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Murray | This volume opens with The Plan of a School, and then, continuing a story-line from volume one, with Mrs Wheatley's demanding of Miss Le Maine how she can use rouge and plume herself on... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes Francis Bacon
and Joseph Addison
. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992. 68 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Johnson | The poem is headed with a quotation from Psalm 19: The Heavens declare the Glory of God, & the Firmament showeth his handy work—the same psalm which Addison
had famously rendered as The spacious... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Pearson | An introductory address To the Reviewers urges them (with the trembling deemed appropriate for a woman writer) not to read the book in the morning but in the period of good humour after dinner. Pearson, Susanna. The Medallion. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794. 1: 7-8 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Savage | The opening poem, Nothing New, situates the anxieties of authors in regard to critics in the tradition of anxieties of lovers: both are right to be anxious. The contents include an English translation of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Smedley | By now Samuel is changing. He likens Johanna to Blake
, whom she has quoted, though he has hitherto admired the balance and rationality of Addison
. Smedley, Constance. Justice Walk. G. Allen and Unwin, 1924. 136, 249 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester |