McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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Eliza Fletcher
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Standard Name: Fletcher, Eliza
Birth Name: Eliza Dawson
Married Name: Eliza Fletcher
Writing during the later eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century, EG was an early poet and occasional travel diarist, a lifelong letter-writer, habitual family memoirist, and eventually an autobiographer. Her involvement in political and reformist movements of her day gives much of her writing a strong political interest.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Craik | The name of Craik seems to have been the one that persisted in this family, for the autobiographer Eliza Fletcher
, née Dawson, who was nearly twenty years younger than HC
, had a school... |
| Friends, Associates | Ann Yearsley | After the debacle with More
, AY
acquired a higher-status patron in Frederick Augustus Hervey, Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry
, a man who could afford to ignore public opinion, and who supported... |
| Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | Over the course of her long life JB
made dozens of well-loved friends, many of them either professional writers like herself or else writing amateurs. They included Lucy Aikin
, Mary Berry
, Eliza Fletcher |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Joanna Baillie
, who lived near the Barbaulds in Hampstead, was one of ALB
's greatest friends. In Barbauld's later years her friends included Samuel Rogers
, Madame D'Arblay
, Eliza Fletcher
(who first visited... |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Edgeworth | Among her many social engagements, she attended a house-party at the home of Whig MP and agriculturalist Sir John Sebright
, whose guests included Dr Wollaston
and the science-writers Jane Marcet
and Mary Somerville
... |
| Friends, Associates | Anne Grant | At about this time her friends included Robert Southey
, Joanna Baillie
, and Eliza Fletcher
. With the last-named her warm and close personal friendship triumphed over their opposing politics (Grant being a Tory... |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Holford | Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott
, and although their relationship got off... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | She knew other distinguished writers from the previous generation too, and her friends both before and after her marriage included many in the world of literature. A couple of years after this she spent the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Yearsley | As early as March-April 1788 AY
's backers Eliza Dawson
and Wilmer Gossip
were suggesting that a play would offer a better chance of financial return than poetry. Yearsley drafted her lost play Bawdin at... |
| Occupation | Anna Letitia Barbauld | She may in fact have had such a pupil at Palgrave. After settling at Hampstead she was never without several of them: probably between thirty and forty over the years. |
| Publishing | Ann Yearsley | In this volume she meant to prove that her poetry was even better when not tampered with by Hannah More
. Her Preface relates the circumstances of their quarrel over the terms of the trust... |
| Textual Production | Ann Yearsley | During the time she was preparing these poems for publication, Yearsley equipped herself with a new team of patrons: Wilmer Gossip
, a Yorkshire landowner with poor health, who was given to spending time at... |
| Textual Production | Ann Yearsley | AY
had told Eliza Dawson
she was working, even before the failed attempt to get Bawdin staged, on a tragedy entitled Earl Goodwin. Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, AMS Press, pp. 283 -5. 300 |
| Textual Production | Ann Yearsley | Benefit performances brought AY
about £120, even though the one at Bristol was postponed from the normal third night to the fourth. Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, AMS Press, pp. 283 -5. 318, 320 |
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