Athenæum. J. Lection.
744 (1842):110
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Nooth | CN
refers to several canonical English names (Pope
, Reynolds
, Garrick
, Shakespeare
, and Edmund Kean
in her first poem), and relates closely to continental women. She praises Germaine de Staël
for... |
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. |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke
in Bristol the previous September... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Montagu | Portraits of EM
include one by Allan Ramsay
, done in 1762, which shows her as an intellectual (she has been reading Hume
's History). Though her body is wrapped in expensive lace, her... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | She was a well-known figure in London cultural circles, particularly that of the Bluestockings. Charles Burney
called her at-home evenings blue conversazioni's and Horace Walpole
called them quite Mazarine-blue. Others specifically mentioned in... |
Textual Features | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | Although Sir Joshua Reynolds
supposed MBCL
insufficiently skilled as an artist to manage history painting, Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press. 8: 238 |
Education | Jane Marcet | Jane Haldimand was educated at home, where she read widely in both English and French. She had lessons from tutors in mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy (the last-named a close relation of modern science. Her... |
Leisure and Society | Charlotte Lennox | CL
was sitting for her portrait to Sir Joshua Reynolds
. He showed her as young and beautiful. This is Susan Carlile's dating; Duncan Isles placed the sitting later, just before the portrait was engraved... |
Publishing | Charlotte Lennox | In about 1773-4 CL
planned a subscribers' edition with illustrations by Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Francesco Bartolozzi
, and Giovanni Battista Cipriani
; but this came to nothing. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 18 , No. 4, pp. 317-44. 327 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Leadbeater | While in England ML
visited Edmund Burke
at Beaconsfield. He had attended school and university with her father and had been taught by her grandfather; he made his final visit to Ballitore in 1786... |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | During her childhood, ECK
associated with a variety of celebrated people through her family connections. Her mother was a close friend of painter and writer Frances Reynolds
(sister to the more famous painter Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Johnson | Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period... |
Friends, Associates | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | LMH
's friends included Margaret Mitchell
, Frances Reynolds
, Cornelia Knight
, Anna Williams
(from whom she received particular kindness), and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | This work has been valued chiefly for its anecdotes of Samuel Johnson
and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. LMH
closes the volume on the name of Reynolds
(printed in honorific capitals), in an implicit tribute to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | Many of the poems continue the autobiographical mode of her first two books, with fawning gratitude for favourable reception as a writer. Many are elegiac, lamenting or commemorating people and places that had been dear... |
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