Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Ham
This publication, written in charming verses, makes the parts of speech perform appropriate functions. The articles, A and The, stand at the door. Nouns march in. The Interjection has the last word(s): Her surprise was...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Hays
MH
's preface explains her intention of examining the power of the passions in action, on the model of Godwin
's Caleb Williams. She also compliments Ann Radcliffe
. She defends the worth of...
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....
Occupation
William Godwin
The imprint M. J. Godwin and Company was launched the following year. The business flourished, becoming almost a literary salon like that of Joseph Johnson
: visitors included Germaine de Staël
. It remained, however...
Occupation
William Godwin
This was just after Eliza Fenwick
left their employ.
Occupation
Mary Hays
At Tansor near Oundle she again worked as a teacher; Eliza Fenwick
had been advising her (since the cost of living as a boarder was so high) to find a live-in position looking after a...
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>”;. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
17
, No. 1, pp. 35-52.
37-8
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...
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...
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...
Textual Features
Mary Ann Browne
The title-poem is a lengthy, often highly effective narrative about Ignatia's experience of learning, love, marriage, motherhood, loss, and abandonment. Ignatia's mother is Palestinian, and after the death of both her parents she experiments with...
