The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870.
George Crabbe
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Standard Name: Crabbe, George
Connections
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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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alethea Lewis | He was aged twenty-one, an apprentice apothecary. His friend George Crabbe
wrote his epitaph for Framlingham church. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Damer | Her father, Henry Seymour Conway
, was an army officer who rose to be Field-Marshal. His distinguished military career was matched by his services to Whig politics. His literary interests made him a friend of... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Fletcher | Eliza Dawson set herself to achieve a real friendship with Yearsley
, who however was touchy about it, and took it on herself to lecture Eliza about her taste for novels, condemning them as the... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | Others with whom she shared this or that memorable experience were the Meynells (Wilfrid
, Alice
, and Viola
), Clarence Rook
and his wife, and Henry W. Nevinson
, whom she eventually married... |
Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson
recorded in his diary meeting JB
and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
). In his account of this pleasant evening... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Leadbeater | While in England ML
visited Edmund Burke
at Beaconsfield. He had attended school and university with her father and had been taught by her grandfather; he made his final visit to Ballitore in 1786... |
Friends, Associates | Alethea Lewis | Through her fiancé Levett, AL
was a friend of George Crabbe
(who met his future wife, Sarah Elmy
, through her). He wrote to her during her youth, assigning her the name of Stella... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | This fine novel shows many of the familiar features of Edgeworth's longer fiction. She took the basic plot-line from a poem by George Crabbe
, The Confidant. She makes of it a highly intertextual... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hester Lynch Piozzi | This book influenced George Crabbe
's English Synonymes Explained, 1816. It is also likely that Roget
, author of the most famous nineteenth- or twentieth-century thesis, also knew it. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson
and Wordsworth
; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray
and Crabbe
, and wrote several poems inspired... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Savage | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | BH
's Daniel Dennison; or, The Autobiography of A Country Apothecary (inspired by George Crabbe
's Annals of the Parish) and The Cumberland Statesman were posthumously published together as Daniel Dennison; and, The Cumberland Statesman. British Library Catalogue. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992. 94-5 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | After a preface on the subject of religion in fiction, an introductory chapter announces (though it anticipates the reader may lose interest here) that the narrator of the novel is to be a spinster of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sylvia Townsend Warner | This lengthy poem, written in couplets, was modelled on the works of George Crabbe
. It was in a form mid-way between the short story and satirical verse. According to Claire Harman
, the poem... |
Timeline
29 October 1807
George Crabbe
published Poems, including the important group of pieces about local life entitled The Parish Register.
By March 1810
George Crabbe
published The Borough, a poem in twenty-four letters about life in a country town.
By September 1812
George Crabbe
published Tales in Verse.
By April 1819
George Crabbe
published another collection of narrative poems: Tales of the Hall.
7 June 1945
Peter Grimes, Benjamin Britten
's opera based on a poem by George Crabbe
, premiered at Sadler's Wells Theatre
, London.