Clery, Emma. “Ghostly Conversations in the Upper Reading Room: Researching Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Protest and Economic Crisis”. The Female Spectator, Vol.
3
, No. 2, pp. 4-5. 5
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Literary responses | Lucy Aikin | Aikin's aunt Anna Letitia Barbauld
sympathised with her trepidation over the reviews. Clery, Emma. “Ghostly Conversations in the Upper Reading Room: Researching Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Protest and Economic Crisis”. The Female Spectator, Vol. 3 , No. 2, pp. 4-5. 5 |
Literary responses | Jane Porter | JP
's use of historical figures and her descriptions of the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794 made many readers suppose that the first volume especially was history, not fiction. A friend of the family felt sure... |
Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | AR
's rival M. G. Lewis
finished reading Udolpho within ten days of its publication, though he had during the same time travelled from England to the Hague. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 93 |
Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The British Critic denounced this work (with a crack at the author's gender), while the Critical Review praised both its originality and its expression. Henry Crabb Robinson
was perturbed to find ALB
writing like an... |
Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Though the first review to appear, in the Monthly Repository, expressed admiration (and some anti-war feeling), McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 476 |
Literary responses | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | This book sparked both sensation and controversy. It was the starting point for Blessington's friendships with Isaac D'Israeli
and Edward Bulwer-Lytton
. Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press. 149 |
Leisure and Society | Annabella Plumptre | Both Henry Crabb Robinson
and Charles Lamb
commented on AP
's ugly appearance. Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press. 494 |
Leisure and Society | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
was an active participant in the literary society of London. She recited her own poems to guests at the Royal Institution
, and she ran a literary society called The Attic Chest... |
Health | Mary Lamb | Henry Crabb Robinson
, who saw her a few days after the funeral, believed that although she was speaking sense she was actually out of her mind. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 375 |
Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | LA
met Henry Crabb Robinson
and William Wordsworth
. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, Macmillan. 1: 200 |
Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | |
Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | LA
dined with Crabb Robinson
, Wordsworth
, Henry Coleridge
, and her niece Anna Letitia Le Breton
and nephew-in-law Philip Hemery Le Breton
. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary. 142 |
Friends, Associates | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
met Mary Russell Mitford
in summer 1822 at the London house of Mrs Vardill: presumably the mother of the Romantic poet Anna Jane Vardill
. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 121 |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Fenwick | Other more or less radical friends of EF
included Thomas Holcroft
, Anne Plumptre
, Elizabeth Benger
, Jane Porter
, Henry Crabb Robinson
, Charles
and Mary Lamb
, and their friend Sarah Stoddart |
Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson
recorded in his diary meeting JB
and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
). In his account of this pleasant evening... |
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