Her relationship with him had not been approved by her family since the young people had nothing much between them to live on. It had been fed by illicit correspondence, but MH
had striven to...
Friends, Associates
Mary Hays
After Wollstonecraft's death, and Fenwick's departure from England, it seems unlikely that MH
found female friends to replace them, though she knew well such people as Elizabeth Inchbald
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, and Charles
Literary responses
Mary Hays
This time most reviews were respectful: the Analytical of course, the Monthly (in which William Taylor
noted that the novel was a cut above the common run, with serious and unusual moral teaching to impart)...
Publishing
Alicia Tyndal Palmer
Her title-page quotes a wish voiced on 1 December 1814 in the House of Lords
that it were possible to summon Sobieski to attend the Congress of Vienna which was even then deciding the political...
Timeline
By June 1796: Samuel Taylor Coleridge compiled a booklet...