Again she laid herself open to hostile criticism for exposing or demeaning Johnson, and reviewers took her to task with gusto. An unusually positive response was that of Thomas Bellamy
in his General Magazine and...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
ESG
's Memoir or Biographical Particulars of Thomas Bellamy
probably appeared this month, written for his novel The Beggar Boy, which she completed after his death and published under this year's date.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 131
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
It is not clear how much of Bellamy's completed novel ESG
actually wrote: as much as the whole of volume three may be hers. Her preface echoes Samuel Johnson
when it says the history of...
Timeline
June 1787: Thomas Bellamy launched The General Magazine...
Writing climate item
June 1787
Thomas Bellamy
launched The General Magazine and Impartial Review, which continued with variations in subtitle until December 1792.
Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah, and Thomas Bellamy. “Biographical Particulars of the Author”. The Beggar Boy, Earle and Hemet, 1801, p. 1: i - xxxvi.
xxiii, xxvii, xxxvii
Texts
Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah, and Thomas Bellamy. “Biographical Particulars of the Author”. The Beggar Boy, Earle and Hemet, 1801, p. 1: i - xxxvi.