William Hayley

Standard Name: Hayley, William

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Travel Anna Seward
AS spent six weeks visiting William and Eliza Hayley at Eartham in Sussex.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
103, 107, 168
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
EST wrote a verse dedication of this novel to the poet William Hayley , with allusions which show her to be well acquainted with his writings. She addresses him as a patron of writing women...
Textual Production Charlotte Brooke
She began her project as a money-earning one, but was later able to declare that the proceeds would go to charity. A further motive was patriotic and nationalistic: to counter the English (even, sometimes, the...
Textual Production Charlotte Smith
It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children...
Textual Production Amelia Opie
AO published the heavily didactic Temper; or, Domestic Scenes: A Tale (inspired by William Hayley 's poem The Triumph of Temper, 1781); it was seven years since her previous novel.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
4th ser. 1 (1812): 336
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
231
Textual Production Mariana Starke
Some of MS 's letters are among William Hayley 's papers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, others among the John Murray papers.
Crawford, Elizabeth. “Posts tagged Mariana Starke”. Woman and her Sphere.
Textual Production Mary Scott
Anna Seward was eagerly awaiting the appearance of this poem in April.
Seward, Anna. Letters of Anna Seward. Editor Constable, Archibald, Vol.
6 vols.
, A. Constable.
2: 89
Though it was published at Bath, MS 's previous publisher, Joseph Johnson , was listed on the title-page as the London...
Textual Features Anna Seward
From the first (in a letter to William Hayley about her visit) AS had seen the noise, fire, and steam associated with iron-producing (often hailed at this period as aesthetically sublime) as an intrusion in...
Textual Features Germaine Greer
The introduction begins, It is not quite forty years since eliminating menopause was first mooted.
Greer, Germaine. The Change. Penguin.
1
It moves swiftly into the concept of a fear or hatred of old women, which Greer names anophobia.
Greer, Germaine. The Change. Penguin.
2
Textual Features Anna Miller
Apart from Anna Seward , the volumes contain only a handful of women's names, but nearly half the contributions are given anonymously. The male poets honoured include Richard Graves and William Hayley .
Textual Features Joanna Baillie
The poems present human shifts of mood and quirks of feeling. They are sensitively observed and charmingly written. The only modern poets she yet knew of to admire, JB said later, were William Hayley and...
Publishing Mariana Starke
MS was writing poetry while still in her teens, and sending her poems for comment to William Hayley . The social flutter caused in her neighbourhood by a visit from a published woman writer made...
Publishing Anna Seward
AS contributed to debate on Boswell 's Life of Johnson with extracts in the Gentleman's Magazine from her correspondence about Johnson with William Hayley , dating from 1782.
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
143, 201-3
Publishing Helen Maria Williams
The Poems were in two volumes, with HMW 's name in full, published by Rivington and Marshall , with an engraved frontispiece drawn by Maria Cosway . Subscribers included the Prince of Wales (whose name...
Publishing Charlotte Brooke
Her father had cherished a never-executed project for a history of ancient Irish literature.
Ashley, Leonard R. N. et al. “Introduction”. Reliques of Irish Poetry, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, p. v - xv.
vi
She had issued Proposals for this work the year before publication. The Houghton Library copy of the Proposals incorporates a...

Timeline

1780: In his poem An Essay on History, in three...

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1780

In his poemAn Essay on History, in three epistles to Edward Gibbon, William Hayley praised the ancient historian Anna Comnena .
Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia. The Victim of Fancy. Pickering and Chatto.
110n6

By April 1781: William Hayley published The Triumphs of...

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By April 1781

William Hayley published The Triumphs of Temper: A Poem: one of many fictional constructions of the ideal woman.

1782: George Romney painted a picture to illustrate...

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1782

George Romney painted a picture to illustrate (after the fact) William Hayley 'a Triumphs of Temper, 1781: Serena, reading Burney 's Evelina. The model was Honora Sneyd .

1785: William Hayley published his Philosophical,...

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1785

William Hayley published his Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids; most women readers agreed with Anna Seward that the book displayed witty, but ungenerous sport of fancy.
Seward, Anna. Letters of Anna Seward. Editor Constable, Archibald, Vol.
6 vols.
, A. Constable.
I: 147

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