Maria
and Richard Lovell Edgeworth
, visiting Leicester in the year of publication, were begged by a local bookseller to look at this volume.
Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott.
14 and n51
The Critical Review remembered SW
for her specimen...
Literary responses
Susanna Watts
Mary Pilkington
and others praised SW
's translations in manuscript. John Heyrick
(husband of her friend Elizabeth) called her the elegant translator of Tasso in his First Flights, published in 1797.
When she began working on her second novel, her father
insisted on editing her drafts extensively, priding himself that he could play a role in her career similar to that of Maria Edgeworth
's father
Education
Charlotte Yonge
The young CY
seems to have been totally unlike her adult self: a noisy, excitable child with a great capacity for screaming.
Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company.
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Her parents followed the system of Richard
and Maria Edgeworth
for bringing...