Richard Phillips

She stayed until Thomas Fenwick, who was supposed to be in a great way of business, went bankrupt by June 1803, after which Penzance had nothing more to offer her. She seems to...

Elizabeth Inchbald had written in veiled terms to Morgan before the latter's marriage of her own brief and unhappy acquaintance (something like patronage) withAP . This experience (which, she says, was well known to...

CH 's friends included novelists Sarah Harriet Burney and Robert Bage , publisher Sir Richard Phillips , Elizabeth Arnold (whom she calls sister of Catharine Macaulay , but who was actually the sister of Macaulay's...

Sydney Owenson formed a lasting friendship with the poet Mary Tighe . In connection with the publishing of her second novel, she met the London publisher Richard Phillips and others in his circle, including William Godwin

The Critical thought this probably inspired by recent books of travels to Greece. In fact the archaeologist William Gell had suggested that Owenson should write about the Greek quest for...

In the year of his son's birth WG published his first of his half-dozen pseudonymous children's books for Richard Phillips : Bible Stories, as William Scolfield. Later titles appeared as by Edward Baldwin...

MH contributed often to Richard Phillips 's new Monthly Magazine. During 1796 also, she began reviewing books for the Analytical, edited by Mary Wollstonecraft , signing herself V.V.

The Analytical assignment was useful in bringing her into contact with Joseph Johnson (as her Monthly reviewing had made her acquainted with Richard Phillips and her Critical work had made her acquainted with George Robinson

The publisher Robinson initially encouraged EI to write her memoirs. She worked at them for years in old age, sending them to friends and publishers for comment. Publishers proved difficult: they feared scandal, yet were...

In January 1800 or November 1801 HC wrote from her Tiverton retirement to London publisher Richard Phillips about a literary project which sounds more like some new writing than a collected works. Angela Escott thinks...

These are presumably the poems for which Phillips on 29 September 1806 offered her a hundred pounds (but not without seeing them first), plus twenty-five each for a hypothetical second and third edition.

In manuscript this novel, planned in the same early period as St. Clair, extended to six volumes, transcribed for its author by a young admirer, Francis Crossley . She later said that...

This pseudonym was one of several names much used by the publisher, Richard Phillips , for books which have been supposed to be of his own composition. Phillips was a friend and associate of the...

She wrote it in summer 1805 as a guest at Longford House near Sligo. In a preface written for a later edition she said that at the time it appeared it was dangerous...

It has not been traced. Edgeworth also reported: My father is afraid, though she has considerable talents, to recommend her to Johnson , lest she should not answer. The Edgeworths were apparently not prepared to...