Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Catherine Fanshawe | In 1793 CF
corresponded with William Cowper
's friend Lady Hesketh
, and through her, with Cowper himself. Mary Russell Mitford
concurs in calling CF
an excellent letter-writer. Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley. 1: 251 |
Literary responses | Catherine Fanshawe | CF
's immediately posthumous reputation rested, like her writings themselves, on oral tradition. She had the admiration of William Cowper
and Walter Scott
, as well as Joanna Baillie
, Anne Grant
, and Mary Berry |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs E. M. Foster | The novel parodies Germaine de Staël
's Corinne (which had appeared in French in 1807, in English in 1808). Chapters are supplied with epigraphs: some standard choices like Pope
and Cowper
, but also texts... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Taylor Gilbert | The poems are lively and entertaining, despite a steady the prevalence of accounts of penalties (up to and including death) naturally consequent on bad behaviour. The most famous of Ann's poems in the volume is... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christian Gray | CG
says of Bessy Bell and Mary Gray that she was instructed by the lowliest of the muses to sing of ladies. Gray, Christian. Tales, Letters, and other Pieces in Verse. Printed for the author by Oliver and Boyd. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dora Greenwell | She opens the essay with a sharp and witty caricature of others' representations of unmarried women: they have, it is true, gained much both socially and æsthetically in passing from the traditionary type—the withered prude... |
Education | Sarah Josepha Hale | |
Education | Jean Ingelow | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Jacson | |
Textual Production | Frances Jacson | The Chawton House Library
copy of this novel is digitally available among their Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The title-page (which quotes Cowper
) gives the date of 1823. Again, the generally-made attribution to Alethea Lewis |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Anne Jevons | She includes a few poems on literary subjects: sonnets on the works of John Milton
and William Cowper
(as edited by Robert Southey
), a sonnet about reading her own youthful diary, and another on... |
Textual Features | Christian Isobel Johnstone | The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon
(Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones
(Read and you will know). Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Diversions of Hollycot. Oliver and Boyd. title-page |
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 | Mary Ann Kelty | She goes on to quote Johnson
, Cowper
, Emerson
(with whose thought she engages in some detail), and many other canonical names. Among women she quotes from Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
(a passage about communion... |
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