Ann Batten Cristall

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ABC 's single book of poems is a remarkable text of women's Romanticism.
  • BirthName: Ann Batten Cristall
    The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography spells her first name with an e.

Milestones

Shortly before 7 December 1769

ABC was born at Penzance in Cornwall, into a family which in the end amounted to six children, including an elder half-brother.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
MacKenzie, Charlotte. “Cornish connections with 1790s radical and literary circles: Part 1”. Cornish Story, 7 Apr. 2019.

By February 1795

The publisher Joseph Johnson issued by subscription ABC 's Poetical Sketches: an important text in women's Romanticism.
Her title was the same as that of William Blake 's first publication, 1783. Critic Richard C. Sha points out that the word sketch (suggesting the private as well as the visual) was also used in titles by Cristall's near-contemporaries Maria Jane Jewsbury , Hannah More , Mary Russell Mitford , Sydney Morgan , Octavia Stopford , and Helen Maria Williams .
Sha, Richard C. The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 13 (1795): 286

9 February 1848

ABC died at approaching eighty years old
The ODNB puts her death and burial at Lewisham, but this may be confusion with Lewisham Hill at Blackheath.
MacKenzie, Charlotte. “Cornish connections with 1790s radical and literary circles: Part 1”. Cornish Story, 7 Apr. 2019.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

Shortly before 7 December 1769

ABC was born at Penzance in Cornwall, into a family which in the end amounted to six children, including an elder half-brother.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
MacKenzie, Charlotte. “Cornish connections with 1790s radical and literary circles: Part 1”. Cornish Story, 7 Apr. 2019.

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