This time her work was able to reach the stage (for just one night) because the second wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, manager of Drury Lane, was her relation: Hester Jane née Ogle
...
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Freya Stark
Flora Stark
's World War II prison memoir, An Italian Diary, was issued posthumously with a foreword by her daughter FS
, through John Murray
, Freya's longtime publisher.
Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House.
Through John Murray
, SM
's My War Experiences was published posthumously by her niece Betty Keays-Young
, or Mrs. Lionel Salmon as she is called on the title-page.
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Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Translations from Petrarch
's sonnets by BBBD
, collected in Dramas, Translations and Occasional Poems, 1821, also appeared in a different form the same year: Ugo Foscolo
reprinted them at the end of his...
Textual Production
Freya Stark
With John Murray
, FS
published a collection of travel essays and meditations based on her horseback journey through Turkey: A Peak in Darien.
John Murray
published a volume entitled The Life of John Oliver Hobbes
: Told in Her Correspondence with Numerous Friends.
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Eleanor Anne Porden
EAP
was projecting an essay periodical in 1815 (she had the first two numbers planned) when this long poem, written at sixteen, appeared. At about the same time she was reading Wordsworth'sRecluse and poems...
Textual Production
Harriette Wilson
HW
's actual surviving letters to Byron
were published (with some editorial revising and omission) in the Cornhill Magazine in April 1935.
Thirkell, Angela. The Fortunes of Harriette. Hamish Hamilton.
203
Those to Brougham
(written 1824-32) followed in book form in 1975. Those...
Textual Features
Freya Stark
This volume covers the years 1928-33, during which FS
established her reputation both as a traveller (winning the Back Memorial Grant of the Royal Geographical Society
and the Burton Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society
Textual Features
Charlotte Riddell
The protagonist has an invalid mother. She takes disappointments and setbacks bravely, tramping round one publisher's office after another. Her eventual success brings her the happiness of her own (unshared) country cottage.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
The novel includes...
Textual Features
Maria Callcott
After her first return from Italy and again later in her life, Maria Graham (later MC
) did book reviews for the publisher John Murray
. She expressed her admiration for contemporary literature: Coleridge
,...
Reception
Harriette Wilson
Contemporary admirers of HW
on literary grounds included Walter Scott
, who praised her dialogue and intelligence, and thought her out and out
Thirkell, Angela. The Fortunes of Harriette. Hamish Hamilton.