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Anne Damer
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Standard Name: Damer, Anne
Birth Name: Anne Seymour Conway
Married Name: Anne Damer
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, who won high critical praise as a sculptor, also wrote poetry and kept journals. She left one definitely and one possibly identified novels, and a series of linked fictional pieces, all published in the early nineteenth century.
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| Textual Features | Hannah Cowley | A prologue complains that true comedy is being driven from the stage by farce and slapstick. The plot turns on the manoevres by which the despicable Fancourt seeks to swindle a provincial worthy, Sir Robert... |
| Textual Features | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | The Sylph of the title is the secret, unidentified adviser of the heroine, Julia, Lady Stanley (who before her marriage was a naive country girl), during her not always successful struggles to live morally amid... |
| Textual Features | Susan Ferrier | This novel, begun with the declared aim of warning young women against elopement, sets out to examine the ingredients, both moral and economic, of happy and unhappy marriages. SF
sees her topic as useful for... |
| Textual Features | Mary Berry | The plot exposes false female friendship in the person of Lady Selina Vapour (played by Damer
). Lady Selina is capricious, and bored when alone with Mrs Lovell (played by MB
). Scholar Andrew Elfenbein |
| Textual Production | Hannah Brand | HB
addressed to her fellow-lesbian Anne Damer
a poem whose manuscript survives at the Lewis Walpole Library
at Farmington, Connecticut, along with others of Damer's papers. Feminist Companion Archive. under Damer |
| Textual Production | Mary Seymour Montague | It is likely though not absolutely certain that the author was really female. Her pseudonym suggests Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
(who had died nine years earlier, and whom this poem praises as the only woman... |
| Textual Production | Lady Charlotte Bury | She was probably planning this work when in 1810 she told Charlotte Clavering
that Susan Ferrier
's novels made her despair of ever writing as well. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 63 |
| Textual Production | Lady Charlotte Bury | LCB
seems to have written, in 1827, a brief preface for a new edition of the novel Belmour, by her first cousin Anne Damer
(first published in 1801). Her preface was reprinted in a... |
| Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | JB
sent her friend Mary Berry
a prologue for Fashionable Friends, Berry's play produced at Drury Lane
by Anne Damer
in 1802; she also wrote an epilogue for it. Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, pp. ix - xiv, 1. 2n7, 3 Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 1: 153n2 |
| Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry
and Anne Damer
both offered comments and revisions four years before this play was published. Lady Louisa Stuart
did the same (through Walter Scott) in 1809. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 1: 158-9, 244 Slagle, editor of JB |
| Textual Production | Mary Berry | Few letters survive among those which both sisters wrote regularly to Horace Walpole
during the late 1780s; his to them appear as volumes 11 and 12 in the Yale edition of his correspondence. Mary also... |
| Textual Production | Mary Berry | Anne Damer
had been encouraging MB
to keep working on her play as early as December 1793. In December 1795 it was complete enough for her to show it to a friend, the mathematician John Playfair |
| Textual Production | Lucy Hutchinson | The editor of the first, lavishly-produced edition of this history recommended it particularly to female readers, as more entertaining than most novels. He also silently cut from it about 9,000 words, besides tinkering with the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Charlotte Bury | The preface takes the form of some account of Damer
's life and character, making some mention of her reputation as a sculptor, her impeccable behaviour as the wife of a depraved husband, and... |
| Travel | Mary Berry | On 8 March 1802 MB
seized the opportunity of the peace of Amiens for European travel, from which British people had long been barred, Berry, Mary, and Agnes Berry. The Berry Papers. Editor Melville, Lewis, John Lane, 1914. 204 |
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