Eliza Fenwick

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Standard Name: Fenwick, Eliza
Birth Name: Eliza Jaco
Married Name: Eliza Fenwick
Pseudonym: A Woman
Pseudonym: E. F.
Pseudonym: the Rev. David Blair
EF , now known (after long obscurity) for her single, remarkable surviving epistolary novel of the radical school of the 1790s, also wrote characterful children's books and extremely vivid letters which extend several decades into the nineteenth century. Her second adult novel never materialised.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Dorothy Wordsworth
DW sent to Charles and Mary Lamb, by June 1804, some little scraps for a children's verse anthology which Eliza Fenwick was compiling, which was published the Tabart the next year as Songs for...
Friends, Associates Mary Wollstonecraft
At this time MW 's achievements were admired by Southey , Coleridge , and many English Jacobins who felt themselves oppressed. Her friends included Elizabeth Inchbald , Mary Robinson , and more warmly Eliza Fenwick
Publishing Susanna Watts
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.
Watts, Susanna. Scrapbook.
The Edgeworths were apparently not prepared to...
Textual Features Sarah Trimmer
In addition to Catharine Cappe 's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy , the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...
Friends, Associates Charlotte Smith
Probably after Mary Wollstonecraft's death, CS became a friend of William Godwin , Elizabeth Inchbald , and Eliza Fenwick . Also a friend was the publisher Joseph Johnson .
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan.
261, 288
Publishing Mary Robinson
The Morning Post carried MR 's Lines Addressed to a Beautiful Infant Inscribed to Mrs Fenwick.
Close, Anne. “Into the Public: The Sexual Heroine in Eliza Fenwick’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Secresy</span> and Mary Robinson’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Natural Daughter</span&gt”;. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
17
, No. 1, pp. 35-52.
37-8
Friends, Associates Mary Robinson
MR remained devoted to the idea of female friendship. She met the artist Maria Cosway in France and they became firm friends. In her last months she wrote to the novelist Elizabeth Gunning to sympathise...
Literary responses Mary Robinson
The Critical Review said that from the first page it had expected something superior, but had been disappointed: even a few pieces of elegant poetry
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2nd ser. 28 (1799): 477
could not redeem the novel....
Friends, Associates Jane Porter
The Porters' mother lived a busy social life on limited means, and JP kept up this tradition. Sir Walter Scott was an early friend.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
265
When she moved to London, JP included among her friends...
Friends, Associates Annabella Plumptre
On that November date Annabella made an attempt, by letter, to bring together their friend Amelia Alderson (later Opie) with Mary Hays . (Anne had already written to the same purpose in March, but not...
Friends, Associates Anne Plumptre
Their friends included Eliza Fenwick , Helen Maria Williams , Susannah Taylor , Mary Hays , Amelia Opie , Thomas Holcroft , John Thelwall , and other radicals. AP supported Thelwall's local electioneering, and Ann Jebb
Friends, Associates Eliza Parsons
Evidence of friendship between these two novelists is interesting because Parsons was a model of respectability while association with Robinson could potentially damage another woman's reputation. At this date Robinson (who had only another five...
Reception Adelaide O'Keeffe
The Monthly Review was on the whole complimentary. It judged the novel to be original and entertaining, though it complained of a few Hibernicisms and grammatical errors. It concentrated, oddly, on the Don Zulvago plot...
Friends, Associates Mary Lamb
ML 's friends (many of them made through Charles) included Eliza Fenwick (whose husband and Charles drank together), Henry Crabb Robinson , and many more canonical members of the Romantic movement. Charles was close to...
Education Fanny Holcroft
FH 's upbringing was purposely and radically progressive. Eliza Fenwick 's intention of bringing her own children up without belief in God was shaken when she found herself disgusted & shocked at the blind, coarse...

Timeline

14 March 1786: An order was established to prevent wards...

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14 March 1786

An order was established to prevent wards of the Upper and Lower Orphanage s in India (mixed-race boys) from travelling to Britain for education.

4 April 1788: At about the time that he lost his religious...

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4 April 1788

At about the time that he lost his religious faith, William Godwin began keeping a diary, which he continued almost daily until 26 March 1836, only two weeks before he died.

January 1812: The Theatre Royal first opened in Bridgetown,...

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January 1812

The Theatre Royal first opened in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Paul, Lissa. “Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840): Morality, Motherhood and the Colonial Encounter in Early Nineteenth Century Bridgetown”. Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Vol.
57
, pp. 98-112.
103

6 March 1834: The settlement of York, population 9,250,...

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6 March 1834

The settlement of York, population 9,250, became Toronto, Upper Canada'sfirst incorporated municipality, with a mayor, aldermen and powers of taxation.
Gee, Marcus. “Moment in Time: March 6, 1834”. Globe and Mail, p. A2.

Texts

Fenwick, Eliza, and Charles Parsons Knight. Infantine Stories. Tabart, 1810.
Hays, Mary et al. “Introduction”. The Fate of the Fenwicks, edited by Annie F. Wedd, Methuen, 1927, p. ix - xvi.
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2ndnd ed, Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
Fenwick, Eliza. Lessons for Children. M. J. Godwin, 1809.
Fenwick, Eliza. Mary and her Cat. Tabart, 1804, http://Very rare. The Bodleian has two copies, UCLA one, mutilated.
Fenwick, Eliza. Presents for Good Boys. Tabart, 1805.
Fenwick, Eliza. Presents for Good Girls. Tabart, 1804.
Fenwick, Eliza. Rays from the Rainbow. M. J. Godwin, 1812.
Fenwick, Eliza. Secresy. William Lane and others, 1795.
Fenwick, Eliza. Secresy. Editor Grundy, Isobel, Broadview, 1998.
Fenwick, Eliza, editor. Songs for the Nursery. Tabart and Co., 1805.
Fenwick, Eliza. The Class Book. Richard Phillips, 1806.
Fenwick, Eliza, and Mary Hays. The Fate of the Fenwicks. Editor Wedd, Annie F., Methuen, 1927.
Fenwick, Eliza. The Life of Carlo, the Famous Dog of Drury-Lane Theatre. Tabart, 1804.
Fenwick, Eliza. Visits to the Juvenile Library. Tabart, 1805.