Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 28 (1799): 477
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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Mary Hays | This was her most formative and most famous friendship. She had approached Wollstonecraft after the latter published Vindication of the Rights of Woman early that same year. Wollstonecraft proved a valuable professional mentor. Another relationship... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Fenwicks Secresy and Mary Robinsons The Natural DaughterEighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 17 , No. 1, Oct. 2004, pp. 35-52. 37-8 |
| Publishing | Susanna Watts | |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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... |
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