Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Catharine Macaulay | Her topics here, all relevant to the escalating American demands for independence, are the declining economy, rising prices, and an oppressive burden of taxes. Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press. 19 |
Textual Production | Anna Maria Mackenzie | Francis, The Philanthropist is included among Chawton House Library
's Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The author (not AMM
) says she intends, even though she admires Richardson
, to emulate Henry Fielding
and Smollett
... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Writing to Mary Russell Mitford
of her hope that they might meet, HM
acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 263-4 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Murray | The first anecdote about the girls is sentimental in tone. The sweet and lovely Miss Menil reforms the eleven-year-old malicious telltale Miss Cummings by taking her part when she has done wrong. Miss Cummings, filled... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Nihell | EN
replied to the attack on her by Smollett
, in a pamphlet entitled An Answer to the Author of the Critical Review for March 1760. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 9 (1760): 412 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Nihell | Tobias Smollett
, writing for the Critical in March 1760, took EN
's book as an attack on the obstetrician William Smellie
(though Nihell specifically disavows reference to individuals). His notice is a defence of... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Nihell | This time the Critical, probably again written by Smollett
, employed an elaborate metaphor suggesting that EN
's pamphlet was a monstrous birth which the periodical itself had fathered: it warned her not to... |
Reception | Laetitia Pilkington | MP's work was controversial from the beginning. It became the topic of newspaper paragraphs and of pamphlets. Several answers to it seem to have been written by Matthew Pilkington
, and one answer to him... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Radcliffe | The first elaborates the supposed history of its own production (written in Russian, translated into English, and edited by a series of writers, all said to be male). It is a novel of violent emotion... |
Literary responses | E. Arnot Robertson | Again the sexual content was an issue. Devlin finds both reticence and modesty in EAR
, but critics found the book's sexual candour appalling, or called it crude or [r]ather too full blooded, or... |
Textual Production | Mary Robinson | In her capacity as editor she made an exception to the paper's policy of publishing original poems only, for the sake of Wordsworth
's The Mad Mother, reprinted from Lyrical Ballads. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, pp. 19-64. 54 |
Education | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | In the house of an aunt she was surprised to find novels (particularly those of Richardson
) a topic of conversation, Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. 1: 118 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Masterman Skinn | AMS
borrows from Richardson
a masquerade scene and her basic epistolary form, and radically revises a borrowing from him when her heroine stabs a would-be rapist with scissors. But her general tone and her enjoyment... |
Literary responses | Ann Masterman Skinn | The Critical Review dismissed the novel as nauseous and insipid, and the heroine as so inconsistent as to be incredible; its only reason for noticing it at all was to deter AMS
from further publication... |
Publishing | Susan Smythies | SS
had trouble securing a publisher for this novel. Because of this, Samuel Richardsonadvised her to try her Friends by a private Subscription, which turned out a success beyond her Hopes. Eaves, T. C. Duncan, and Ben D. Kimpel. Samuel Richardson: A Biography. Clarendon. 464 |
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