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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 |
Literary responses | Mary Lamb | In reading The Father's Wedding-day, Walter Savage Landor
said he pressed my temples with both hands, and tears ran down to my elbows.. He read this story over and over again, Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 244 |
Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Critics in general, from first publication onwards, tended to identify Sydney Owenson with her heroine; the name Glorvina stuck to her thenceforward. The Critical Review (whose notice spelled this name wrong throughout) said it could... |
Literary Setting | Amelia B. Edwards | Half-a-Million of Money has an ingenious, if somewhat schematic plot. Its hero, Saxon Trefalden, has been brought up in Switzerland (his native country) by an aged uncle, a pastor, according to the principles of Rousseau |
Occupation | Iris Murdoch | Dawson later recalled her as blithe and insouciant about set-texts and exams, preferring to roam over philosophical and literary ideas from Plato
to Arthur Koestler
. Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , pp. 52-3. 52 |
Publishing | Mary Wollstonecraft | It was dedicated to the French statesman Talleyrand
, a supporter of the Revolution and the reputed lover of Germaine de Staël
. She produced a second, revised edition by the end of the year... |
Publishing | Germaine de Staël | GS
released a limited edition of Lettres sur les ouvrages et le caractère de J.-J. Rousseau (Letters on the Works and Character of Jean-Jacques Rousseau). Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg. 118 |
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 |
Publishing | Harriet Martineau | |
Reception | Adelaide O'Keeffe | The Monthly Review was on the whole complimentary. It judged the novel to be original and entertaining, though it complained of a few Hibernicisms and grammatical errors. It concentrated, oddly, on the Don Zulvago plot... |
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... |
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... |
Textual Features | Mary Robinson | The romantic outcast hero Walsingham feels a conflicted love for Isabella (he improbably rapes another woman who dresses as her at a masquerade, and feels only a brief remorse). He also loves his brilliant cousin... |
Textual Features | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb
, but also Dugald Stewart
and Henry Brougham
), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against... |
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