Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan
, William Lovett |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Cooper | Her selection runs from Edward the Confessor
to Samuel Daniel
. (The title-page mentions Gower
, Langland, and Chaucer.) For each poet she provides a short biography and a scholarly and critical preface. Her judgements... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Clara Balfour | In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Anne Jevons | She includes a few poems on literary subjects: sonnets on the works of John Milton
and William Cowper
(as edited by Robert Southey
), a sonnet about reading her own youthful diary, and another on... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Figes | EF
's protagonist covers many topics: she speaks of her female experience (deaths of children in successive generations, anxiety for survivors, living with gendered contempt), her economic experience (the poverty of weavers, like her husband... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | Her protagonist, Theresa Morven, has until three years before the story opens been buried in a French convent at the behest of her stepmother, whom, however, she steadfastly refuses to hate. (Her own mother died... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | Twenty-two of the poems are the sister's, thirty-eight the brother's, and three are written by Eliza, a sister-in-law. An Advertisement gallantly suggests that the lady outshines the gentleman. EST
's verse introduction confesses her early... |
Travel | Mary Shelley | The villa was famous for a visit made there by the young Milton
in 1639 and is still a literary landmark. They stayed first at Sécheron, then at Cologny. Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press. 107 Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge. xvi |
Wealth and Poverty | Anne Marsh | Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. Heath-Caldwell, J. J. “Letters, References and Notes (1780-1874), Relating to James Caldwell and Anne Marsh (Marsh-Caldwell)”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell. 1839-1842 |
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