It had been planned as one volume, then as two. This production history, said Mitford, had left it overloaded with civil notes, and too full of carelessnesses and trifling repetitions.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 160
According to Richard C. Sha
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Ann Batten Cristall
The preface expresses admiration for both Burns
and George Dyer
. ABC
stresses her lack of education (which, critic Richard C. Sha
argues, associates herself with lower-class writers like William Blake
and Henry Kirke White
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Ann Batten Cristall
The publisher Joseph Johnson
issued by subscription ABC
's Poetical Sketches: an important text in women's Romanticism.
Her title was the same as that of William Blake
's first publication, 1783. Critic Richard C. Sha
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Sha, Richard C. The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British Romanticism. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.