Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell.
119-125, 128
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Tabitha Tenney | Choice of women writers is fairly generous, with excerpts from Hester Mulso Chapone
, John Aikin
and Anna Letitia Barbauld
(Evenings at Home), Susanna Haswell Rowson
, Elizabeth Carter
, Hester Thrale
,... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Smith | Among undated poems Bowdler prints another imitation of Ossian
and a translation from the German of Friedrich von Matthisson
. Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell. 119-125, 128 |
Education | Elizabeth Smith | At three years old ES
loved books and at four she could read extremely well. Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell. 215-6 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Smith | One month before writing this poem Elizabeth Smith
met Mary Hunt
, with whom she was soon maintaining a scholarly correspondence. In the earliest letter which Bowdler prints (written on 7 July 1792), Smith touches... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Smith | That is, she took Ossian
as a model for a lament for her own chosen ancient hero. The din of war is drowned by one more great and more terrific sound; / A sound high... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Smith | Elizabeth Smith's surviving letters are all written to female friends. The earliest ones are precociously concerned with exercising her learning: not precisely showing off but defining her own personality through her passion for Ossian
and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Seward | Though AS
disliked Samuel Johnson, many of her literary opinions were conservative. She still loved Ossian
in 1796, when the texts were known to be forgeries. On 24 August 1807 (despite her admiration for Robert Southey |
Intertextuality and Influence | Regina Maria Roche | This novel claims relationship with Macpherson
's Ossian through quotations appearing on its title-page and heading its chapters. An element of terror derives from Matthew Gregory Lewis
's notorious The Monk, 1796. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Porter | The novel opens: One tempestuous night in the October of 1793, a carriage stopped at the door of a solitary old house on the borders of the Lake of Killarney. Porter, Anna Maria. The Lake of Killarney. T. N. Longman and O. Rees. 1: 1 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Pearson | The poem picked out by the Critical Review as the principal one, occupying fourteen pages, is entitled Lines found on the Stairs of the Tour de la Chapelle of the Bastile. These lines, powerful... |
Textual Production | Sarah Murray | The title-page of this very rare book goes on: To which is added, a Description of part of the Main Land of Scotland, and of the Isles of Mull, Ulva, Staffa, I-Columbkill... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | The title-page quotes Dryden
. The story opens in Scotland, twenty miles from Glasgow, with the humble clergyman Dr Woodville giving reluctant permission for his unsophisticated young daughter, Anna, to attend a charity ball... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Helme | EH
's next novel, the St Clair of the Isles; or, The Outlaws of Barra. A Scottish Tradition, published anonymously but claimed on later title-pages, reveals considerable knowledge of Ossian
and of medieval customs. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | This novel is well supplied with quotations: Macpherson
's Ossian
on the title-page and Robert Blair
(The Grave) to open the first volume, with Shakespeare
and Milton
for the succeeding volumes. It opens... |
Literary responses | Anne Grant | Letters from the Mountains was not noticed in the Edinburgh Review, an omission which Grant attributed to gender prejudice. Perkins, Pamela. “Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy”. Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850, edited by Emma Clery et al., Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 29-43. 32 |
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