George Crabbe

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...

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...

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

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...

BH published Tales of the Priory, with her name, acknowledging her indebtedness to Crabbe by a quotation on the title-page.

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).

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.

Wordsworth in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep. Although his...

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.

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...

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...

MD had apparently finished this poem in draft by 1782. It was dedicated to Lord Aldborough . Subscribers included George Crabbe , Richard Graves , Jonas Hanway , Dr Robert Lowth , Hannah More ...

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...

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...

The novel's publication was listed in the Edinburgh Review 49 (1829): 529, together with Scott's Anne of Geierstein.The Sun linked the setting not with Crabbe but with Mary Russell Mitford