Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press.
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Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | Walpole
thought CM
's principles sounder and more securely settled than Burke's, while Burke
(coining the term republican Virago) judged her the ablest among his opponents. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 173 Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 74 |
Literary responses | Hannah More | This work became an overnight best-seller. Queen Charlotte
dismissed her Sunday hairdresser. A fifth edition was needed by April, and two more followed within a few more months. All had large print-runs. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 109, 104 |
Literary responses | Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny | Her prayers became publicly well-known through Thomas Bentley
's printing of fifty of them, some long, in his Monument of Matrones in 1582 under the title The Praiers made by the right Honourable Ladie Frances... |
Literary responses | Hannah More | An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World was praised in letters by many of HM
's friends and associates. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 112 Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon. 14: 385 |
Literary responses | Mary Delany | In a letter she slighted her own work as my usual presumption of copying beautiful nature. Linney, Verna. “A Passion for Art, a Passion for Botany: Mary Delany and her Floral ’Mosaiks’”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol. 1 , pp. 203-35. 224 |
Literary responses | Melesina Trench | Before publishing MT
's private writings, her son showed them to Edward FitzGerald
. Fitzgerald responded positively, judging them the equal of published letters by the writers Horace Walpole
and Robert Southey
. He showed... |
Literary responses | Mary Wollstonecraft | The Vindication provoked a storm of comment and replies, in reviews (the Monthly was respectful both of her project and its execution, but the Critical, though its review was long and detailed, was scathingly... |
Literary responses | Ellis Cornelia Knight | In a letter to Lady Upper Ossory
on October 14, 1792, Walpole
noted that There is so much learning and good sense well digested . . . that it is impossible not to admire the... |
Literary responses | Anna Miller | Her publisher, Charles Dilly
, praised the work and its philanthropic author for animated warmth so honestly avowed. Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press. 195 |
Literary responses | Teresia Constantia Phillips | The Thais of the title was an ancient courtesan. Historian Kathleen Wilson
says that in JamaicaTCP
acquired the nickname of The Black Widow in allusion to her many marriages and her supposedly destructive effect... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | A somewhat belated notice in the Critical Review specifically approved this epilogue; Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 5th series: 53 (1782): 315 Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, p. i - cxxxviii. xxii |
Literary responses | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | Walpole
thought this work careless and incorrect, but there are very pretty things in it. Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, p. i - cxxxviii. xx |
Literary responses | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | Years before this Walpole
had remarked to his friend Horace Mann
that MBCL
had something of a turn towards poetry. Walpole, Horace. The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence. Editor Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon, Yale University Press. 25: 475 |
Occupation | Thomas Chatterton | He was apprenticed as a legal scrivener or copyist and began, using a hoard of ancient manuscripts which had been in his father's possession, to write poems and fake their physical manifestation, attributing them to... |
Occupation | Mary More | A couple with the same names as MM
and her husband Francis were taking in apprentices in painting during the later seventeenth century, but Ezell thinks these were probably different people. Horace Walpole
knew of... |
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