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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... |
Publishing | Eliza Parsons | She gave her name as Mrs. Parsons on the title-page and signed the dedication with both her names. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 512 |
Textual Features | Georgina Munro | A debauched earl is the narrator of this novel, which, typically for the genre, is peopled by characters from the gentry and the upper classes. Athenæum. J. Lection. 744 (1842):110 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Dedications | Hannah More | HM
sent Horace Walpole
a copy of her poem Florio, which was dedicated to him. Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon. 13: 361 |
Publishing | Hannah More | Horace Walpole
printed HM
's Bishop Bonner
's Ghost in an edition of 200 copies from his Strawberry Hill Press
. Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon. 1: lv; 14: 145, 155 |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Her later friendships often blended the personal with the political, like those with Beilby Porteus
(Bishop of London from 1787, where she met him) and the abolitionists William Wilberforce
(met at Bath the same year)... |
Literary responses | Hannah More | |
Literary responses | Hannah More | The Critical Review (to which the author's identity was no secret) said of it that HM
's narrative gift was no contemptible endowment, and that her gaiety of humour was pleasing. It did, however... |
Literary responses | Hannah More | Walpole
eulogised the fertility of ideas in the poem, but Anna Letitia Barbauld
, as a Dissenter unconvinced of the moral excellence of the Church of England, wrote a stinging riposte. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 70 McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 303-4 |
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 | 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 |
Textual Features | Hannah More | HM
writes her Hints in full political consciousness of the likelihood that she is trying to shape a future ruler. Her claim to have remained uninfluenced by Wollstonecraft
or Catharine Macaulay
(whom she called patriotic... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Moody | The volume opens with an anti-war poem (as well as reprinting Anna's Complaint and The Temptation) and includes several pieces on deaths: of family members, of a baby, of Edward Lovibond
, of Horace Walpole |
Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | According to the surviving manuscript, the two women produced their verse responses on the very day that Eleanor Bowes was said (years later, by the cynical Horace Walpole
) to die of the violence of... |
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