Andrew Elfenbein

Critic Andrew Elfenbein interprets her assumption in her poetry of the male role of genius to suggest a degree of lesbian orientation in AB , though nothing is known of her sexual attitudes or behaviour.

Literary historian Andrew Elfenbein argues that these attacks formed part of a general assault on the morals of the aristocracy. AD stepped up her artistic activities during the next decade, and this rendered her liable...

The notice in the Critical Review was uncomplimentary, dismissing her as an imitator of Scott , John Leyden , and William Wordsworth .The Poetical Register praised the volume for poetical...

AD was not only a diarist, novelist, and amateur actress: she became, from the 1780s, a successful and even famous sculptor. Andrew Elfenbein notes the application to her of such terms as female genius and...

Critic Andrew Elfenbein considers that the true subject of AD 's bas-relief of Antony and Cleopatra is physical intimacy between women, in this case between Cleopatra and Charmian.