Characteristics of Women was well received as a work of Shakespeare
criticism: reviewers and literary critics placed it alongside the work of Hazlitt
, Coleridge
, and Schlegel
.
Desmet, Christy. “’Intercepting the Dew-Drop’: Female Readers and Readings in Anna Jameson’s Shakespearean Criticism”. Women’s Re-Visions of Shakespeare, edited by Marianne Novy, University of Illinois Press, pp. 41-57.
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Textual Features
Penelope Fitzgerald
In life her hero (whose actual name was Friedrich Leopold, or Fritz, von Hardenberg) was a friend of Schiller
and Schlegel
, and died in 1801 before the age of thirty, having just published his...
Friends, Associates
Joanna Baillie
On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson
recorded in his diary meeting JB
and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
). In his account of this pleasant evening...
Timeline
1798-1800: August Wilhelm and Friedrich von Schlegel...
Writing climate item
1798-1800
August Wilhelm
and Friedrich von Schlegel
published their periodicalDas Athenäum, the manifesto of the German Romantic movement.