Thomas McLean

Standard Name: McLean, Thomas

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Literary responses Jane Porter
Thomas McLean has argued that the play was well qualified as a popular melodrama, despite having too much early exposition, and too many characters too complicatedly related to each other. JP was shattered by the...
Publishing Joanna Baillie
JB 's letters and other papers survive in the National Library of Scotland , the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons , and elsewhere. Her Collected Letters were edited by Judith Bailey Slagle in...
Reception Frances Browne
Contemporary scholar Thomas McLean has noted that indeed most nineteenth-century treatment of Browne dwells on her admittedly extraordinary biography at the expense of her literary accomplishment.
McLean, Thomas. “Arms and the Circassian Woman: Frances Brownes The Star of AttéghéiVictorian Poetry, Vol.
41
, No. 3, West Virginia University Press, 2003, pp. 295-18.
298
Today she is largely remembered for Granny's Wonderful...
Reception Jane Porter
The ODNB judged the London scenes (where the hero is living privately in London and trying to make a living out of selling his painting) the most convincing in the book.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Thomas McLean , however...
Reception Jane Porter
This novel fell short of the popularity of her earlier historical fiction. Thomas McLean has compiled a bibliography of her later writings.
McLean, Thomas. “Jane Porter’s Later Works, 1825–1846”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
20
, No. 2, 1 June 2009– 2024, pp. 45-62.
47, 50, 52-
Textual Features Margaret Holford
Death-bed Thoughts shows substantial variation from its predecessor all the way through, but both bear on their penultimate page (p. 97) the outcry I am weary of my mortality. When shall my body be in...
Textual Production Jane Porter
In 1800 appeared a pamphlet essay which may be by JP or to her and her sister : A Defence of the Profession of an Actor.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts: A Catalogue of Books By, For, and About Women of the British Isles, 1696-1892. Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts, Feb. 2007.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and Thomas McLean

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McLean, Thomas. “A New Work by Margaet Hodson”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
253
, No. 4, pp. 434-5.
McLean, Thomas. “Arms and the Circassian Woman: Frances Brownes The Star of AttéghéiVictorian Poetry, Vol.
41
, No. 3, West Virginia University Press, 2003, pp. 295-18.
Baillie, Joanna. Further Letters. Editor McLean, Thomas, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010.
McLean, Thomas. “Jane Porter’s Later Works, 1825–1846”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
20
, No. 2, pp. 45-62.
McLean, Thomas. “Off-Stage Dramas: Jane Porter, Edmund Kean, and the Tragedy of SwitzerlandKeats-Shelley Review, Vol.
25
, No. 2, Maney Publishing, pp. 147-59.
McLean, Thomas. The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.