Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
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Dedications | Charlotte Smith | It carried a dedication, dated 10 May, to Cowper
, who had read and revised a draft. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998. 195-6 |
Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
Education | Georgiana Fullerton | She could read by four-and-a-half, and recalls an early admiration for hymns by Anna Letitia Barbauld
and Maria Edgeworth
. Julius Cæsar, the first Shakespearean
play that she saw, left a lasting impression. Later... |
Education | Maria Theresa Longworth | MTL
was educated in France at an Ursuline convent school. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908. Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003. 137 Erickson, Arvel B., and John R. McCarthy. “The Yelverton Case: Civil Legislation and Marriage”. Victorian Studies, Vol. 14 , pp. 275-91. 275 |
Education | Sarah Josepha Hale | |
Education | Emma Marshall | At a very early age Emma Martin could recite See'st thou my home is where yon woods are waving by Felicia Hemans
. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900. 8 |
Education | Jean Ingelow | |
Education | Anna Swanwick | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | The Cowper family, many of whose male members distinguished themselves in the law and in politics, used a confusing amount of repetition in naming their children in successive generations. Almost a majority of JCM
's... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | JCM
's nephew William Cowper
the poet, with whom she corresponded, took an interest in her work and was probably the channel through which her poems reached the anthologists Colman
and Thornton
. Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Collecting Women: Poetry and Lives, 1700-1780. Bucknell University Press, 2009. 155n55 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Scott | MS
was probably a friend from an early age of the dissenting hymn-writer Anne Steele
, who lived not very far away and who was a generation older. They spent much time together in 1773... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Smith | On a month-long visit to William Hayley
, CS
met the poet Cowper
, his friend Mary Unwin
, and the painter George Romney
. Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941. 155-7 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Tabitha Tenney | Neither the Cumberland episode, nor her father's death, nor her own serious illness brought on by grief, can change Dorcasina. She next fancies that a new servant, John Brown, is a lover in disguise. (The... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen
, though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau
on the topic of the sensitive... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Selina Davenport | It opens with England, with all thy faults I love thee still!—a quotation not from Byron
's Beppo, which lay still two years in the future, but from Cowper
's The Task (whence... |