William Hayley

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.

Her relationship with the fashionable poet and author William Hayley was another in which each party flattered the other. She kept up with Hayley's wife, Eliza (who was also a writer, less ambitious and less...

AS was several times painted by George Romney . One portrait, in fashionable garb, belonged to her father. Another was treasured by William Hayley , then vanished from sight. A century later it was found...

The Critical thought this even better than AS 's Elegy on Captain Cook: one of the most pleasing little poems which we ever perused. It doubted the wisdom, however, of printing the letters.

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...

Anna Seward was eagerly awaiting the appearance of this poem in April. Though it was published at Bath, MS 's previous publisher, Joseph Johnson , was listed on the title-page as the London...

This attacks William Hayley 's Essay on Old Maids, at which CR was understandably angry.

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.

She had already begun to move in fashionable circles, and became friendly with Lady Caroline Lamb , Lady Cork , and painters James Northcote and Sir Joshua Reynolds . In 1802, in London and...

Agatha Torrington responds bravely to the suspicion that her marriage may have been bigamous. She takes her daughter away with her; the daughter, Emma Castlemain, follows in her footsteps by enduring her husband's unfaithfulness with...

HM 's Sensibility (a poem addressed to Frances Boscawen ) appeared in print together with her Sacred Dramas, by March 1782. Critic Harriet Guest says it was influenced by William Hayley 's Triumphs of Temper.

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 .

The introduction begins, It is not quite forty years since eliminating menopause was first mooted. It moves swiftly into the concept of a fear or hatred of old women, which Greer names anophobia.

AF writes in the style of mid-century poets Gray and especially Collins , whose names she specifically invokes and whose words she echoes, along with classics of the past like Petrarch . She records an...

This work abounds in quotations from Lydgate , Spenser , Sainte-Palaye , William Hayley , and others. It cites the Roman historian Tacitus in confirmation that the chivalric system was originally Germanic.