Frances Greville

The feelings of this Emma are all in extremes. During her early passion she quotes Frances Greville on the pains of sensibility. She and her father kneel alternately to each other when she...

ESG quotes on her title-page from James Hammond and early in her first volume from Samuel Johnson (no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author). The quotation from...

He describes her with a line from Donne 's Second Anniversary. EG 's range of reference here includes Rousseau , Milton , Frances Greville , and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . Characters discuss and...

Again one of Yearsley's most perceptive readers was Anna Seward , who wrote to Helen Maria Williams on Christmas Day 1787 that Yearsley and Burns were both miracles . . . . Perhaps she has...

Lady Crewe , whose two daughters were the pupils concerned, was herself the daughter of the writer Frances Greville , and as Mrs Crewe (before her husband received a peerage in 1806) had been well...

The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret . Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF 's local and family connections: Ralph Allen , Lord Chesterfield

SD reveals her gender in her preface merely by her use of pronouns. Her motive for publishing was a dire need of money. An unnamed benefactor in her family supplied the need, but she decided...

Choice of women writers is fairly generous, with excerpts from Hester Mulso Chapone , John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld (Evenings at Home), Susanna Haswell Rowson , Elizabeth Carter , Hester Thrale ,...

The contents are part new, part reprinted. SK notes this in Remarks of the Author, which admits the claims of good taste but declares that fantastic imagination too has its place. She writes in...

These poems include political subject-matter, for instance in the celebratory Ode to the President, On his visiting the Northern States. This addresses Washington as Columbia's guardian God, who emulates and surpasses the military...

Unlike curst apathy, she writes, contemplation can raise the seed which Virtue sows, / From Folly's blights the tender plant defend, / 'Till vigorous as the towering oak it grows.

This appendix includes sonnets, meditations, and Edmund and Anna, A Legendary Tale. CD addresses abstractions of various kinds: morning and evening, love, sympathy, madness, and war and peace. Indifference reflects the influence of Frances Greville

Many of the poems continue the autobiographical mode of her first two books, with fawning gratitude for favourable reception as a writer. Many are elegiac, lamenting or commemorating people and places that had been dear...

In the title poem a recluse offers shelter in his cave to a lady who gives birth and then dies, leaving her child to be educated only by nature. The protagonist of The Dying Maniac...

Anne Home produced a good deal of occasional poetry during the years 1766-7. Elegies among these include several relating to young women. An Inscription on an Urn in memory of Miss Susanna Stenwix unfortunately lost...