George Crabbe

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Standard Name: Crabbe, George

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Textual Production Joanna Baillie
Here she gathered together poems by such writers as Walter Scott , George Crabbe , William Wordsworth , Robert Southey , Felicia Hemans (whose work Baillie warmly admired), Anne Grant of Laggan, Anna Maria Porter
Textual Production Mary Leadbeater
Apart from the letters to Trench and others printed in The Leadbeater Papers, ML 's letters to George Crabbe are now British Library MS Egerton 3709A. Her diary, now in the National Library of Ireland
Textual Production Mary Bryan
Another adviser was apparently the Bristol writer Charles Abraham Elton (who also employed Elizabeth Ham as a governess in his family and helped her revise her longest poem for publication). He suggested that Bryan might...
Textual Production Alethea Lewis
AL 's surviving correspondence with George Crabbe is now British Library MS Egerton 3709A and Bodleian MS Autog. c. 9. The former also contains his correspondence with Mary Leadbeater .
Crabbe, George. Selected Letters and Journals. Editors Faulkner, Thomas C. and Rhonda L. Blair, Clarendon Press.
117, 194
Textual Production Barbara Hofland
BH published Tales of the Priory, with her name, acknowledging her indebtedness to Crabbe by a quotation on the title-page.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 498
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
24 (1820):176
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press.
70-1
Textual Production Barbara Hofland
BH published Fortitude, A Tale, set in 1742; the title-page quotes George Crabbe (rather than the Bible, which she frequently uses to give weight to title-pages of this kind).
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press.
88-9
Textual Features 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...
Textual Features Susanna Blamire
These Poetical Works include the first publication of SB 's longest poem, Stoklewath, with its affectionate, picturesque, but socially realistic portrait of village life. On Imagined Happiness in Humble Stations follows up this realism...
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...
Reception Valentine Ackland
Though VA 's poems were well received when they first began to appear, she was always a poet out of step with her time: more in tune, as Claire Harman remarks, with writers of the...
Publishing Evelyn Sharp
ES took up full-time the great profession of journalism in 1904,
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head.
93
after an absence from London for family reasons had interrupted her career as a freelance teacher. She had been a desultory journalist already...
Publishing Alethea Lewis
The subscribers included George Crabbe and his wife , and Mary Meeke (who was for years, but erroneously, thought to have been a novelist herself). OCLC WorldCat (in 2015) lists three copies (at Yale ...
Publishing Alethea Lewis
AL 's dedication to Sir Edward Littleton , Member of Parliament for Stafford, praises him in this capacity and as a landlord. Her subscribers include many friends or relations, as well as writers like...
Publishing Mary Deverell
MD had apparently finished this poem in draft by 1782.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
It was dedicated to Lord Aldborough . Subscribers included George Crabbe , Richard Graves , Jonas Hanway , Dr Robert Lowth , Hannah More ...
Publishing Margaret Fuller
A review by MF of two recent biographies, one of Hannah More and another of George Crabbe , appeared in the first issue of the Western Messenger. It was her first published piece of literary criticism.
Mehren, Joan von. Minerva and the Muse: A Life of Margaret Fuller. University of Massachusetts Press.
66

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29 October 1807: George Crabbe published Poems, including...

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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...

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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....

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By September 1812

George Crabbe published Tales in Verse.

By April 1819: George Crabbe published another collection...

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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...

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7 June 1945

Peter Grimes, Benjamin Britten 's opera based on a poem by George Crabbe , premiered at Sadler's Wells Theatre , London.

Texts

Crabbe, George. Selected Letters and Journals. Editors Faulkner, Thomas C. and Rhonda L. Blair, Clarendon Press, 1985.
Crabbe, George. The Complete Poetical Works. Editors Dalrymple-Champneys, Norma and Arthur Pollard, Clarendon Press, 1988.