Richard Phillips

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...

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...

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...

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

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...