Anna Eliza Bray

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Standard Name: Bray, Anna Eliza
Birth Name: Anna Eliza Kempe
Married Name: Anna Eliza Stothard
Married Name: Anna Eliza Bray
Nickname: Eliza
Used Form: Mrs Bray
Used Form: Mrs Charles Stothard
Used Form: the author of De Foix
AEB first reached print with a collection of letters, the first of two which appeared over the course of her career. During fifty-four years, she published twelve novels, and twelve historical and biographical works. She edited several posthumous works by others and also produced writing for children. Many of her works were inspired by historical events or figures as well as by English folklore and legend. Some of her novels proved controversial for alleged anti-Catholicism at a time of fierce debate over Catholic Emancipation; much of her fiction and history focuses on Protestant resistance to religious oppression. A popular success during the mid-Victorian period, AEB has of late received little critical attention.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Caroline Bowles
More recently Adam Matthew Publications has filmed her poetical notebooks from 1806 to 1836 in their Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts, part five. A manuscript headed Mrs Southey's Narrative, which tells the story of...
Textual Production Mary Maria Colling
MMC , who was working inTavistock as a domestic servant, sent Anna Eliza Bray a parcel containing several of her poems.
Bray, Anna Eliza, and Mary Maria Colling. “Letters to Robert Southey”. Fables and Other Pieces in Verse by M.M. Colling, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, pp. 1-85.
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Textual Production Marina Warner
MW published Joan of Arc : The Image of Female Heroism, her study of the legendary Maid of Orleans who became a fearless soldier, a martyr, and eventually a saint.
Warner's biography of Joan...
Textual Features Mary Maria Colling
As its extended title suggests, the book is prefaced by three letters from Bray to Southey. The correspondence provided the Poet Laureate with MMC 's life history, as well as examples of her poems. The...
Textual Features Mary Maria Colling
MMC 's tribute to Southey reads: And since condescension my lay hath beguiled,
Forgive, Sir, the boldness of Nature's rude child;
Permit me to thank you with humble respect,
For goodness so great, which I...
Textual Features Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
Pre-eminent among the Protestant heroines treated by Foxe is Anne Askew , whose own texts he includes. Anna Eliza Bray had published a novel inspired by Foxe in 1828.
Reception Christina Rossetti
The copies printed were distributed among friends and family. They all enjoyed the poems except Christina's brother Gabriel , who somewhat cattily wrote to their mother: I should advise her to console herself with the...
Publishing Mary Maria Colling
MMC published (by subscription, arranged by Anna Eliza Bray ) her first and only volume of poetry: Fables and other Pieces in Verse, with a portrait of the author.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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Wright, W. H. Kearley. West-Country Poets: Their Lives and Works. Elliot Stock.
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Author summary Mary Maria Colling
MMC wrote at Tavistock, where she was employed as a domestic servant, in the earlier nineteenth century. Her poems were collected as Fables and other Pieces in Verse, her only published volume. Novelist...
Occupation Mary Maria Colling
Colling had an amicable relationship with Mrs Hughes. According to the novelist Anna Eliza Bray , she thought her employer grew as fond of her as if she had been her own child.
Bray, Anna Eliza, and Mary Maria Colling. “Letters to Robert Southey”. Fables and Other Pieces in Verse by M.M. Colling, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, pp. 1-85.
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Literary responses Mary Maria Colling
Colling shared her earliest writings with very few people. Her first audience was an old man named Pearce, who responded favourably to her work. Anna Eliza Bray , however, reports that several others scorned [Colling]...
Literary responses Mary Maria Colling
Maria Jane Jewsbury 's review for the Athenæum doubted whether Bray 's act of bringing Colling into the literary spotlight and drawing public attention to her as an intellectual marvel . . . is not...
Literary responses Caroline Bowles
The Gentleman's Magazine's obituary for Bowles recalled that Chapters on Churchyardscontributed materially to establish her literary reputation and also showed powers of narrative fitting her for a popular and profitable branch of composition...
Intertextuality and Influence Christina Rossetti
She noted that it was initially titled A Peep at the Goblins in imitation of her cousin Anna Eliza Bray 's recent book, A Peep at the Pixies; Gabriel came up with the title...
Health Mary Maria Colling
Anna Eliza Bray later wrote that her friend had a nervous temperament.
Bray, Anna Eliza, and Mary Maria Colling. “Letters to Robert Southey”. Fables and Other Pieces in Verse by M.M. Colling, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, pp. 1-85.
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In a letter to Robert Southey , Bray reported that Colling admitted to being assailed by envy and malice, on account...

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Bray, Anna Eliza. A Description of the Part of Devonshire Bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy. John Murray, 1836.
Bray, Anna Eliza, and Hablot Knight Browne. A Peep at the Pixies. Grant and Griffith, 1854.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall, 1884.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Courtenay of Walreddon. Bentley, 1844.
Bray, Anna Eliza. De Foix. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826.
Colling, Mary Maria, and Anna Eliza Bray. Fables and Other Pieces in Verse by M.M. Colling. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Hartland Forest. Longman, Green, 1871.
Bray, Anna Eliza. “Introduction”. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray, edited by John A. Kempe, Chapman and Hall, 1884, pp. 1-36.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Joan of Arc and the Times of Charles the Seventh, King of France. Griffith and Farran, 1874.
Bray, Anna Eliza, and Mary Maria Colling. “Letters to Robert Southey”. Fables and Other Pieces in Verse by M.M. Colling, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831, pp. 1-85.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Letters Written during a Tour through Normandy, Brittany, and Other Parts of France in 1818. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.
Bray, Edward Atkyns. Poetical Remains, Social, Sacred, and Miscellaneous. Editor Bray, Anna Eliza, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859.
Bray, Anna Eliza. The Life of Thomas Stothard, R.A., with Personal Reminiscences. J. Murray, 1851.
Stothard, Charles Alfred. The Monumental Effigies of Great Britian. Editors Bray, Anna Eliza and Alfred Kempe, John Murray, 1832.
Bray, Anna Eliza. The Novels and Romances of Anna Eliza Bray. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846.
Bray, Anna Eliza. The Novels, Historical, Legendary and Romantic. Chapman and Hall, 1884.
Bray, Anna Eliza. The Protestant. Colburn, 1828.
Bray, Anna Eliza. The Revolt of the Protestants of the Cévennes. J. Murray, 1870.
Bray, Anna Eliza. The White Hoods. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Trelawny of Trelawne. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1837.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Trials of the Heart. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Warleigh. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1834.