Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Seward | She was nearly fourteen when the five-year-old Honora Sneyd
, whose mother was dead, came to live in the Seward household. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 9-10 |
Textual Features | Jennifer Johnston | Johnston goes on to represent the gulf dividing old from young and class from class by telling her story in several voices: Minnie's stream of consciousness, that of her uncle (Money draining away. Wastepaper... |
Literary responses | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | On 24 August 1795Erasmus Darwin
and Sir Brooke Boothby
wrote a joint letter to Maria Jacson in praise of Botanical Dialogues, which they had read in manuscript. They even expressed the hope that... |
Literary responses | Barbara Hofland | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | This novel handles remarkably the stock motif of the foundling, and the more unusual theme of an abusive marriage. (In a note at the end, BH
says that each of these is based on a... |
Education | Elizabeth Gaskell | Until the age of eleven, Elizabeth was taught at home by her Aunt Hannah Lumb
. As befitting the Unitarian emphasis on personal freedom and rationality, she read widely, and was encouraged to make her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Edgeworth | In 1773 Maria was motherless for less than four months before she acquired the first of three successive stepmothers: Honora Sneyd
, with whom Richard Lovell Edgeworth
had recently fallen in love. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 41-2, 46 |
Residence | Maria Edgeworth | ME
, having left school, set out with her father
to live at Edgeworthstown in County Longford, where the Edgeworth family had been established since 1583. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 77 Moynahan, Julian. Anglo-Irish. Princeton University Press. 13-14 |
Textual Production | Maria Edgeworth | During the same year, ME
's father
and first stepmother
planned a series of dialogues for children. Their dialogues were to be called Harry and Lucy. Thomas Day
was to contribute to the project... |
Travel | Maria Edgeworth | ME
stayed at Clifton near Bristol with her father
, stepmother, and her six younger siblings (all but the toddler). Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 104, 114 |
Textual Features | Maria Edgeworth | The Double Disguise, set in an inn in England (the Pig and Castle, on the road from Ireland via Liverpool to London), features a travelling Irish family. The father (Richard Lovell Edgeworth
's... |
politics | Maria Edgeworth | Richard Lovell Edgeworth
, with ME
and the rest of the family, were forced to leave their house to escape the Catholic rebels. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 138 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | It opens with a breezy, antifeminist, adversarial Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend. The gentleman is hostile to female education and female authorship; his letter is based on one actually sent by Day |
Travel | Maria Edgeworth | ME
set out, with herfather
, stepmother
, and two eldest unmarried sisters, to visit France and Belgium. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 187-9 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | She received two hundred pounds for it, twice as much as for the recent Castle Rackrent. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 492 |
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