Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Roscoe
William Roscoe
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Standard Name: Roscoe, William,, 1753 - 1831
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Anne Jevons | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Anne Jevons | Mary Anne was very close to her father, William Roscoe
, the historian, writer, patron of the arts, abolitionist and reformer. William began his professional career as a barrister, but retired early. Soon afterwards he... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Sandbach | MS
's grandfather, William Roscoe
, was a historian, poet, abolitionist, and reformer, whose immensely talented children published a book of family verse in 1820. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965. |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | In England as in Scotland MR
had a wide circle of friends. They included the artists Thomas Lawrence
and Henry Fuseli
and the writers Samuel Rogers
, Richard Sharp
, and Sir James Mackintosh
... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Tighe | Before she left London, MT
met there her fellow Irish poet Tom Moore
. He subsequently visited her in Dublin and complimented her in verse. She exchanged poems with Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre)
... |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | During the last months of Burns
's life, Riddell was again sending him her verses to read. He dined at her house, though too weak to walk, on 5 July 1796, and asked her sardonically... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Heyrick | Both the title-page and the body of the work quote (unascribed) lines about social injustice spoken by Shakespeare
's King Lear (who has only just realised the rampant injustice of the world and of his... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lydia Howard Sigourney | The original volume also includes poems written for children. Flora's Party (in the style of William Roscoe
's The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast, 1807, Catherine Ann Dorset
's The Peacock "at Home"... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Sandbach | She probably used her grandfather
's The Life of Lorenzo de' Medici (1796) as a historical source. Athenæum. J. Lection. 789 (1842): 1062 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Roscoe |
| Literary responses | Mary Wollstonecraft | Radicals, however, responded positively. William Roscoe
(father of Mary Anne Jevons
) hailed MW
in a poem satirising Burke. Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992. 126-7 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | The reprint includes high praise of the little volume, calling it quite equal to [William Roscoe
's The Butterfly's Ball, 1807] in playfulness and spirit, and far superior to it in facility of... |
| Publishing | Felicia Hemans | The attractive quarto volume, printed in Liverpool for T. Cadell and W. Davies
in London, was dedicated with permission to the Prince of Wales
. It had 977 other subscribers, including Captain Alfred Hemans |
| Residence | Mary Anne Jevons | Mary Anne Roscoe (later Jevons)
moved with her family into Allerton Hall, near Liverpool: an estate bought by her father
, where her paternal grandfather had once served as a butler. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Roscoe |
| Residence | Mary Anne Jevons | In the face of bankruptcy, William Roscoe
(father of Mary Anne Jevons
) sold the family's beloved home, Allerton Hall. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Roscoe |
| Textual Features | Mary Anne Jevons | No attributions are given for particular pieces, but the collection contains the father
's celebrated narrative poem for children, The Butterfly's Ball, as well as works by Mary Anne's younger sister Jane Elizabeth
... |
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