Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Maureen E. Mulvihill
Standard Name: Mulvihill, Maureen E.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Tighe | MT
's mother, Lady Theodosia (Tighe) Blachford
, was an early Irish Methodist. Through her mother's grandfather, the Earl of Darnley, she descended from the first Earl of Clarendon
. |
| Fictionalization | Augusta Gregory | Sam McCready
's one-woman play entitled Coole Lady was mounted in 2005, with Joan McCready
playing AG
, by Handcart Ensemble Productions
in New York (photos online, with a review for the city's Yeats Society... |
| Health | Virginia Woolf | Commentary and analysis on her death does not abate. Maureen E. Mulvihill
argues in a recent essay that Woolf 's suicide had a larger logic as response to a combination of external factors, apart from... |
| Leisure and Society | Aphra Behn | St Hilda's College
, Oxford, holds a portrait by Mary Beale
, the most successful woman artist of her day, which has been thought to represent Behn. Scholar Maureen E. Mulvihill
discussed (with illustrations)... |
| Leisure and Society | Hester Lynch Piozzi | The National Portrait Gallery
lists twelve portraits of HLP
, dated 1781 to 1811 (though some of these derive from each other and a couple are conversation-piece prints). Sir Joshua Reynolds
painted her with her... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Cavendish | Douglas Grant published a life in 1957: Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Late in the twentieth century, interest in her and her work escalated steeply. The first... |
| Occupation | Ephelia | She was by all accounts an outstanding courtier, admired not only for her beauty but also for her style and wit (Freda Hast
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography quotes the word for... |
| Author summary | Ephelia | The Restoration user of the name Ephelia
was a remarkably assured, forceful, and accomplished poet (as well as a playwright), although she left, outside her single printed collection (1679), only four poems extant: political broadsheets... |
| Publishing | Mary Tighe | A copy of the privately printed edition, beautifully inscribed to John Richardson at London on 24 July 1805, is now British Library
C. 95 b. 38. A copy once owned by Lytton Strachey
(with his... |
| Publishing | Mary Tighe | MT
's portrait by Romney
was reproduced as frontispiece. Weller, Earle Vonard, and Mary Tighe. “Introduction / Memoir of Mary Tighe”. Keats and Mary Tighe, Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966, p. vii - xxi. xxiii |
| Publishing | Ephelia | The book was handsomely produced, having a decorated dedication page, and a frontispiece featuring an oval portrait (or fictitious portrait) of Ephelia, with a heraldic badge above the picture and a pedestal bearing her engraved... |
| Publishing | Jane Austen | JA
wrote of this novel, I can no more forget it, than a mother can forget her sucking child. Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. 285 |
| Publishing | Mary Leadbeater | The University of Pennsylvania
paid $976 US for a copy of this collection (not in mint condition) at the Peyraud
sale in 2009. Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Literary Property Changing Hands: The Peyraud Auction (New York City, 6 May 2009)”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, No. 1, pp. 151 - 63. |
| Reception | Ephelia | Maureen E. Mulvihill
calls Female Poems the first volume of English poetry in which a female voice takes a purely secular viewpoint. Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Sly Stuart Duchess: The Many Masks of Mary Villiers (’Ephelia’)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), pp. 1 - 5. 3 |
| Reception | Ephelia | In the late nineteenth century H. B. Wheatley
suggested in Samuel Halkett
and John Laing
's A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain that Ephelia was somebody called Joan Phillips. This... |
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