Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press.
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Publishing | Anne Bannerman | Robert Anderson
's Edinburgh Magazine published work by AB
under the pseudonym Augusta: two sonnets and a verse translation from Rousseau
. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 131 |
Textual Features | Amelia Beauclerc | This novel is heavy-handedly moralistic. The heroine, Miriam Harcott, is the child of an atheistical philosopher (converted in the end by a good—not Methodist—clergyman) and a careless mother who causes the deaths of three of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marjorie Bowen | |
Education | Charlotte Brooke | CB
was educated by her father
, who was interested in Irish language and culture, and was influenced by the pedagogic ideas of Rousseau
. Brooke, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Charlotte Brooke’s Reliques of Irish Poetry, edited by Lesa Ni Mhunghaile, Irish Manuscripts Commission, p. xxv - xliv. xxv |
Textual Features | Frances Burney | Evelina opens with an ode to Charles Burney
(unnamed) as Author of my Being, which sounds like an apology for having written. Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press. 37 |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Butler | Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton
, and Harriet Pigott
therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby
. Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, p. vii - viii; various pages. vii |
Textual Features | Jane Welsh Carlyle | The conversational style of Jane's writing (with its casual tone, frequent underlinings and dashes) and her literary tastes are also illustrated in these early letters to Bess. Recomending Rousseau
's Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloïse... |
Friends, Associates | Alison Cockburn | Her friendship with Hume
was one of ease and intimacy. She joked with him and teased him, tried earnestly to convert him from atheism to Christianity, urged him to visit France and to bring Rousseau |
Textual Features | Alison Cockburn | The earliest letter addressed to David Hume, written on 20 August 1764, is rather elaborately jokey: Idol of Gaul, I worship thee not. The very cloven foot for which thou art worship'd I despise, yet... |
Textual Features | Mary Collyer | MC
's letter-writing heroine is a young Londoner who ecstatically discovers and settles in the country. The plot concerns the love between her and the sentimental Lucius Manly, described as a poor Shaftesburean
moralist... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lucie Duff Gordon | LDG
endeavoured to be prepared for the arrival of her child; she purportedly continued reading Rousseau
's Émile (a treatise on education which devotes almost all of its attention to boys) until well into her... |
Textual Production | Maria Edgeworth | ME
's overall pedagogic project (shared with her father) was a programmatic rejection Butler, Marilyn. “Edgeworth’s Stern Father: Escaping Thomas Day, 1795-1801”. Tradition in Transition: Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon, edited by Alvaro Ribeiro and James G. Basker, Clarendon, pp. 75-93. 82 |
Textual Features | Maria Edgeworth | This book uses an inductive method new to educational instruction: learning by doing (a child who searches in vain for a Latin word in the dictionary will thereby learn how inflections work), and demystifying. It... |
Literary responses | Maria Edgeworth | Literary memoirs and old second-hand illustrated editions testify to ME
's enormously wide juvenile audience during the Victorian period. She influenced the work of later children's writers as various as Louisa May Alcott
, Frances Hodgson Burnett |
Reception | Amelia B. Edwards | John Cordy Jeaffreson
gave two full Athenæum columns to Half-a-Million of Money, but largely in order to complain that in spite of its unusual plot the novel was essentially derivative, and sapped his confidence... |