Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
62 (1786): 62
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Occupation | Susanna Wright | SW
became widely known for her various activities. She not only took care of her family (and later the family of her brother James) but also raised silkworms on a large scale, and was regarded... |
Dedications | Helen Maria Williams | HMW
published her Poems, with about 1570 subscribers, dedicated to Queen Charlotte
. The British Library Catalogue on-line lists two volumes of separately-issued Sonnets, 11644.bb.10 and 011604.ee.65, no date or details given. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 62 (1786): 62 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Dedications | Lady Mary Walker | LMW
said she wrote this book in her nursery, surrounded by her children, to earn money after her first husband left her. She also says she was persuaded by friends to publish. Walker, Lady Mary. Letters from the Duchess de Crui and Others. Robson. 1: v Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | QV
's father, Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent
, was a son of domestic and high-minded parents, George III
and Queen Charlotte
, but since their day the House of Hanover had become renowned for... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Trollope | It took several years for the Trollopes' financial difficulties to turn into a financial catastrophe, and during those years, FT
entertained many friends and acquaintances, including Lady Milman
, whose husband had been Queen Charlotte |
Residence | Frances Trollope | She visited Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and the battlefield of Waterloo. She also visited Charlemagne
's cathedral at Aiz-la-Chapelle or Aachen, as well as the Rhine and surrounding region... |
Occupation | Sarah Trimmer | ST
went to advise Queen Charlotte
, who wished to establish Sunday Schools in Windsor. Trimmer, Sarah. Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer. F.C and J. Rivington and J. Johnson, and J. Hatchard. 1: 120 |
Dedications | Sarah Trimmer | It was issued by a group of publishers: Longman
, the Robinsons
, and Joseph Johnson
. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Dedications | Mary Stockdale | She claimed that her father insisted she should publish it. She dedicated it to Queen Charlotte
, though adding that it was too sad for Charlotte's ears. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2nd ser. 22 (1798): 352 |
Textual Production | Sarah Scott | It reached a second edition within the year. Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlv. xliv |
Textual Production | Mary Robinson | MR
composed two remarkable political poems: The Birth-Day (about public celebrations for Queen Charlotte
) and January 1795, about the month's headline news. Curran, Stuart. “Mary Robinson and the New Lyric”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 9 , No. 1, pp. 9-22. 12-13 |
Textual Production | Adelaide O'Keeffe | The dedication imagines writers aspiring to the honour of influencing the baby Charlotte: I taught the maid! cries each exulting Muse. O’Keeffe, Adelaide. Llewellin. Cawthorn. prelims |
Reception | Hannah More | This work became an overnight best-seller. Queen Charlotte
dismissed her Sunday hairdresser. A fifth edition was needed by April, and two more followed within a few more months. All had large print-runs. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 109, 104 |
Dedications | Jean Marishall | Francis
and John Noble
were important circulating library proprietors as well as publishers. The dedication to the young queen
is signed with JM
's initials. Another edition followed the next year: Marishall said she saw... |
Dedications | Jean Marishall | Again JM
dedicated her novel to the queen
, but this time she hardly knew whether or not it had been presented at court (perhaps, she said, the Duchess of Ancaster
had done this). She... |
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