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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Leadbeater | This work draws on her diary, and gives a lively picture of local life at Ballitore over nearly sixty years (ending in 1823). She goes into some detail about her family and her early memories... |
Literary responses | Mary Leapor | ML
was by no means forgotten after her first discovery. She was praised in John Duncombe
's Feminiadand accorded the largest share of space in Poems by Eminent Ladies.William Cowper
, who... |
Literary responses | Mary Leapor | This volume attracted attention from Samuel Richardson
, Christopher Smart
, and the young William Cowper
, as well as from its chief promoters, John Duncombe
and Susanna Highmore
. Rizzo, Betty. “Molly Leapor: An Anxiety for Influence”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol. 4 , pp. 313-43. 327-8 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | |
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. Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press. 137 Erickson, Arvel B., and John R. McCarthy. “The Yelverton Case: Civil Legislation and Marriage”. Victorian Studies, Vol. 14 , pp. 275-91. 275 |
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. 155n55 |
Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | Five hundred of JCM
's letters survive in manuscript. The correspondence between her and her husband
both before and after marriage (about 350 letters, from 13 October 1723) is held by the Bodleian Library
(MS... |
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. 8 |
Textual Production | Emma Marshall | |
Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror... |
Leisure and Society | Hannah More | Once an omnivorous reader, HM
restricted her choice of books in later life, in line with her religious convictions. She delighted in William Cowper
as a poet whom I can read on Sunday. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 90 |
Literary responses | Hannah More | The Critical Review approved the poem, but remarked that amelioration might do as well as abolition as a means of addressing the abuses it describes. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 65 (1788): 226 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Parker | After this the tide of MAP
's description begins to turn. Notwithstanding the general appearance of the natives, I never felt the least fear when in their company, being always with a party more than... |
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... |
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