Two separate sources allege that HW
had a child, but her biographer Frances Wilson
discounts them both.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
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Friends, Associates
Harriette Wilson
She also made male friends who treated her as an intellectual equal (this list overlaps with that of her lovers). She corresponded with Henry Brougham
and with Byron
. Brougham, the liberal lawyer—anti-abolitionist, pro-Queen-Caroline...
Literary responses
Harriette Wilson
Biographer Frances Wilson
writes, Harriette had great hopes for Clara Gazul, but it sank like a stone.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
281
Nevertheless, it is surprising that Angela Thirkell
, in her biography of HW
, pronounces Clara...
Literary responses
Harriette Wilson
HW
's book was dubbed a disgusting and gross prostitution of the press
Student of the Inner Temple,. A Commentary on the Licentious Liberty of the Press. 1825.
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the same year in A Commentary on the Licentious Liberty of the Press, by a Student of the Inner Temple...
Reception
Harriette Wilson
Frances Wilson
entitles Panic at the Palace her chapter about George IV
's outrage at the things said about his mistress Lady Conyngham
; it chronicles attempts to extradite HW
from Paris, in which...
Reception
Harriette Wilson
The full title was Confessions of Julia Johnstone, written by herself. In contradiction to the fables of Harriette Wilson. It announces that Johnstone is writing to vindicate her character and those of friends, and...
Textual Features
Harriette Wilson
The Memoirs' opening moves smoothly from the famous shock of the first sentence into a tone of judicious complexity: I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the...
Textual Production
Dorothy Wordsworth
DW
's manuscripts survive in the collection at Dove Cottage in Grasmere. The twentieth century saw a burst of publication of her writing in scholarly editions. Ernest de Selincourt
edited her Journals in 1941...
Wealth and Poverty
Harriette Wilson
HW
paid enough of his debts to get him out of prison; at the same time her biographer Frances Wilson
thinks that one inducement to marriage was that a wife was not responsible for her...