A number of HEW
's epigraphs to chapters remain untraced, and some may be her own work. Those identified bear witness to considerable reading: among English writers she quotes Shelley
, Byron
, Eliza Cook
Reception
Harriette Wilson
The full title was Confessions of Julia Johnstone, written by herself. In contradiction to the fables of Harriette Wilson. It announces that Johnstone is writing to vindicate her character and those of friends, and...
Textual Production
Amabel Williams-Ellis
Her completion of the novel was delayed and nearly prevented when she suffered a serious concussion; however, her friend Storm Jameson
helped bring the text to publication by acting as proofreader and advisor.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Dorothy Ashton (later DW
) also spent two months in Florence (which she associated with Percy Bysshe Shelley
and Robert Browning
, while she gave no sign of having heard of the wife of either)...
Textual Features
Dorothy Wellesley
DW
's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington
, doyenne of the albums...
Intertextuality and Influence
Rosamund Marriott Watson
In addition to poems from all her previous volumes, the book includes The Story of Marpessa, which first appeared in the Universal Review in September 1889. This poem is a critique of marriage adapted...
Textual Production
Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW
wrote an opera libretto about the last days of Percy Shelley
, The Sea Change, for musician Paul Nordoff
, who had been commissioned by Columbia University
to write an opera.
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus.
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Literary responses
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
This splendidly excessive tale was elaborately summarised by the Critical Review. It had the nerve to complain at the end that Owenson ought to write in a more simple and natural manner,
Poems and Ballads appeared in 1866. This highly controversial collection, following closely on the heels of two successful plays, firmly established his literary reputation. He published an illustrated book of literary criticism, William Blake
...
Education
Anna Swanwick
At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope
, and Cowper
. At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton
's L'Allegro...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Stockdale
His specialities were scandal, pornography, and blackmail. He was an attacker of the alleged profiteer Mary Anne Clarke
, and claimed to have given her protector the Duke of York
the idea of getting hold...
Intertextuality and Influence
G. B. Stern
She begins by quoting in its entirety Robert Browning
's poem entitled Memorabilia, which as she observes is better known by its opening line, Ah, did you once see Shelley
plain?
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
prelims
She approaches...
Cultural formation
Anna Steele
Her heritage was English: her mother
's family name, Michell, was said to derive from a village near St Columb Major in Cornwall, now spelled Mitchell. Both sides of Steel's family were presumably white...
Timeline
February 1793: William Godwin published his Enquiry Concerning...
Writing climate item
February 1793
William Godwin
published his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, a radical text which was highly influential, not least for Godwin's future son-in-law Percy Bysshe Shelley
.
1798: Thomas Robert Malthus anonymously published...
Building item
1798
Thomas Robert Malthus
anonymously published in LondonAn Essay on the Principle of Population, which later attached his name to the birth control movement.
1811: John Frank Newton published The Return to...
Building item
1811
John Frank Newton
published The Return to Nature, or a Defence of the Vegetable Regimen.
10 April 1815: The largest volcanic eruption in modern times,...
National or international item
10 April 1815
The largest volcanic eruption in modern times, that of Mount Tambora in what is now Indonesia, buried an entire civilization. It had twice the magnitude of the later Krakatoa eruption.
9 June 1817: Knitter Jeremiah Brandreth led an uprising...
National or international item
9 June 1817
Knitter Jeremiah Brandreth
led an uprising of 300 men, who marched from Pentridge in Derbyshire to nearby Nottingham.
12 August 1822: The new Marquess of Londonderry, better known...
National or international item
12 August 1822
The new Marquess of Londonderry, better known as Viscount Castlereagh
, killed himself: he was seen as the political author of Wellington
's victories and of repressive policies at home.
1886: Eleanor Marx published the socialist polemic...
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. A Selection from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Editor Blind, Mathilde, B. Tauchnitz, 1872.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Adonais. With the types of Didot, 1821.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Alastor. S. Hamilton, 1816.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Epipsychidion. C. and J. Ollier, 1821.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments. Editor Shelley, Mary, Edward Moxon, 1840.
Shelley, Mary, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. History of a Six Weeks’ Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland. T. Hookham and C. and J. Ollier, 1817.
Browning, Robert, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. “Introductory Essay”. Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edward Moxon, 1852.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Introductory Note to <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Revolt of Islam</span>”;. The Revolt of Islam.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Poetical Works of Shelley. Editors Hutchinson, Thomas and Geoffrey Maurice Matthews, Oxford University Press, 1970.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, and Thomas Jefferson Hogg. Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson. J. Munday, 1810.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Posthumous Poems. Editor Shelley, Mary, John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Prometheus Unbound. C. and J. Ollier, 1820.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Queen Mab. P. B. Shelley, 1813.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Cenci. C. and J. Ollier, 1819.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Necessity of Atheism. C and W. Phillips, 1811.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Revolt of Islam. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones; C. and J. Ollier, 1818.
Plato,. The Symposium on Love. Translator Shelley, Percy Bysshe, Peter Pauper Press.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “When the Lamp is Shattered”. The Literature Network: Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Zastrozzi. G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, 1810.