Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
58 (1778): 111
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Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | The Monthly Review gave CM
's modern history a long, respectful notice in several issues, praising her manly energy. Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths. 58 (1778): 111 |
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 |
Occupation | Charlotte Lennox | Horace Walpole
saw CL
on stage at Richmond, and thought her performance deplorable. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
Dedications | Ellis Cornelia Knight | ECK
published an epistolary historical novel in two volumes called Marcus Flaminius, with a dedication to Horace Walpole
, who had recently become Earl of Orford. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 568 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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... |
Textual Features | Isabella Kelly | Bibliographer James Raven
suggests that the gothic accoutrements here seem rather in tongue-in-cheek, somewhat in the manner of Horace Walpole
's The Castle of Otranto. Raven, James. “Historical Introduction: The Novel Comes of Age”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, pp. 14-117. 33 |
Publishing | Mary Jones | This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange
: Anne, daughter of George II
and the late Queen Caroline
. The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ
's friend Martha Lovelace, later... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Geraldine Jewsbury | Zoe reflects GJ
's own lifelong spiritual crisis. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 223-4 Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 72 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Anne Jevons | Mary Anne was very close to her father, William Roscoe
, the historian, writer, patron of the arts, abolitionist and reformer. William began his professional career as a barrister, but retired early. Soon afterwards he... |
Leisure and Society | Anne Irwin | AI
had her portrait painted; an engraving from it appears in Horace Walpole
's Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Barbara Hofland | BH
explains that she intends to vindicate the character of Richard III
(who in her view came back as Perkin Warbeck
) and expose Henry VII
as a villain. She used the British Museum
again... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Hervey | They were married at St George's, Hanover Square, London. He was the natural son of Thomas Hervey, who in turn was one of the eight children of John, Lord Hervey
. Hervey, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The History of Ned Evans (1796), edited by Helena Kelly, Pickering and Chatto, p. vii - xxii. viii Beckford, William. Life at Fonthill, 1807-1822, with Interludes in Paris and London. Editor Alexander, Boyd, Rupert Hart-Davis. 202n2 |
Residence | Elizabeth Hervey | EH
was living at Brussels by 1781. In autumn 1789 she and her sons had returned from abroad and were living at Braziers Park near Ipsden in Oxfordshire, a house in the playfully Gothic... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Hervey | The Critical Review once again praised the style and characters. It judged the novel too long and its plot too complicated, but that the whole was certainly superior to the majority of flimsy publications of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins |
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