Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Jane Austen | Austen's status in the English-speaking world is not so far equalled among, for instance, French speakers. Valérie Cossy
noted in March 2006 that (largely on account of inaccurate and inadequate translations) [v]ery few people in... |
| Reception | Jane Austen | In July 2009 Chawton House Library
marked the two-hundredthth anniversary of JA
's settling in Hampshire with a highly successful conference on new directions in scholarship about her. In November 2009-March 2010 the Morgan Library and Museum |
| Reception | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
was a presence in the early poetry of Wordsworth
and Coleridge
, though they later distanced themselves from her so emphatically. Her work appeared in magazines in the USA before the end of the... |
| Reception | Ephelia | Mulvihill's website at http://marauder.millersville.edu/~resound/ephelia/ offers a great deal of information including identifications, put forward with greater or lesser degrees of certainty, of twenty-three historical personages named in Female Poems on Several Occasions, together with... |
| Reception | Sarah Fielding | The shadow cast over SF
by her brother Henry has been diminishing for some years. Reprints, scholarly editions, a biography, the printing of letters, and debate about her generic and critical place, all bear witness... |
| Reception | Susanna Blamire | In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received. |
| Reception | Frances Burney | An adaptation of the story by Maureen Lyle
for narrator, two singers, and piano was performed at Chawton House Library
on 2 April 2016. |
| Reception | Frances Burney | In the year of publication Henry Singleton
did two paintings illustrating scenes from Camilla, which are now at Chawton House Library
. Bree, Linda. “’The Lovely Cynthia’ Finds a Home at Chawton”. The Female Spectator, Vol. 16 , No. 4, pp. 11-12. 11 |
| Residence | Jane Austen | After four and a half years they had a permanent home again, provided for them by Edward Austen Knight
on his Chawton estate. The red-brick cottage stands in the main road of the village, only... |
| Textual Production | Mary Robinson | Violet Fane
's inscribed copy is now at Chawton House Library
. |
| Textual Production | Sarah Butler | Since some scholars believe that SB
was not a woman but a pseudonym, other names have been put forward for authorship. They include Charles Gildon
(who supplied the dedicatory epistle), or the Jacobite translator and... |
| Textual Production | Maria Callcott | Some of MC
's manuscripts (owned by Rosamund Brunel Gotch
in 1937) are now in the Bodleian Library
. A collection of her sketches (including many of the drawings which accompanied her journal of her... |
| Textual Production | Mary Shelley | MS
began to work seriously on this novel in late 1820. Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 413-24. 414 Chawton House Library Catalogue. http://www.chawton.org/library/index.html. |
| Textual Production | Margaret Cavendish | The frontispiece depicts her standing in a classically architectural niche flanked by figures of Athena and Apollo. Lines of poetry below advise the onlooker not to concentrate on her beauty but View her Soul's Picture... |
| Textual Production | Mary Martha Sherwood | A number of letters of MMS
are extant. Chawton House Library
holds a dozen of them. Chawton House Library Catalogue. http://www.chawton.org/library/index.html. |
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