Stephenson, Glennis. Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L. Manchester University Press, 1995.
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William Maginn
Standard Name: Maginn, William
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | L. E. L. | Friends of LEL
began receiving anonymous letters suggesting that she was having an adulterous affair with William Maginn
. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | L. E. L. | Spiteful rumours resurfaced about her relationship with William Jerdan
, and there are reports that William Maginn
circulated some compromising letters she had written. Forster pressed her to marry immediately, but instead she broke off... |
| Literary responses | Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton first Baron Lytton | Bulwer's Newgate novels were insistently skewered by William Maginn
, and after 1836 by Thackeray
, in Fraser's Magazine. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Hall | The August 1831 review in Fraser's Magazine, possibly penned by Irish writer William Maginn
, accused AMH
of plagiarism—claiming that her story The Rapparee was uncomfortably similar to Bulwer Lytton
's Paul Clifford. Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe, 1997. 8, 234 |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | The only extended notice of this very interesting work was William Maginn
's hatchet job in Fraser's Magazine, which took Morgan's literary inadequacy for granted, and mercilessly ridiculed both her gender and her nationality... |
| Publishing | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Before this book appeared, Morgan quarrelled with Colburn
over his advertising policy, and sold her manuscript to Saunders and Otley
for a thousand pounds. In revenge, Colburn advertised against it, and offered to dispose of... |
| Textual Production | Harriet Downing | She had contributed More Poets on the Ice on 25 February 1835 to Leigh Hunt
's short-lived London Journal. C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. http://c19index.chadwyck.com/home.do. |
Timeline
February 1830: The first issue of Fraser's Magazine for...
Writing climate item
February 1830
The first issue of Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country was published by James Fraser
of Regent Street, London.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 303-5, 309
Texts
Maginn, William. “Gallery of Literary Characters XLI: Miss Landon”. Fraser’s Magazine, Vol.
8
, 1833, p. 433.