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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Sir Walter Scott | Walter Scott
caused a sensation with Waverley, his first novel, a historical work published anonymously with a dedication to the sentimental novelist Henry Mackenzie
. Manning, Susan. “Julie de Roubigné: Last Gasp, or First Fruits?”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 24 , No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2001, pp. 161-73. 164 |
Education | Lady Louisa Stuart | LLS
grew up under her mother's eye, and was educated through both reading and social contact. She later remembered reading Henry Mackenzie
's The Man of Feeling at fourteen and fearing she might not cry... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Susan Ferrier | The first important position of James Ferrier
, SF
's father, was as Writer to the Signet. Later he was appointed Principal Clerk of Session and became estate manager to the Duke of Argyll
... |
Friends, Associates | Alison Cockburn | She wrote that some of my most steady friends thro' Life were my childhood companions, girls she had been at school with. Cockburn, Alison. Letters and Memoirs. Editor Craig-Brown, Thomas, David Douglas, 1900. 2 |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | That year HMW
was introduced by Dr John Moore
to Burns
, with whom she then corresponded. She met Samuel Rogers
(in November 1787), Hester Lynch Piozzi
, and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. The year... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Grant | She became a noted figure in Edinburgh literary and social circles. Among her friends were Lady Charlotte Campbell (later Bury)
, Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, 1901, pp. 237-96. 284 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christian Gray | CG
says of Bessy Bell and Mary Gray that she was instructed by the lowliest of the muses to sing of ladies. Gray, Christian. Tales, Letters, and other Pieces in Verse. Printed for the author by Oliver and Boyd, 1808. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Maria Williams | This novel re-writes Rousseau
's Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloise in the sentimental style of Frances Sheridan
's Sidney Bidulph or Henry Mackenzie
's Julia de Roubigné. Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993. 33 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The story opens in the year 1605 in a cottage near the Jura Mountains. Later scenes set in Salzburg convinced Devendra P. Varma
that Sleath was personally acquainted with that city. Varma, Devendra P., and Eliza Parsons. “Introduction”. Castle of Wolfenbach, Folio Press, 1968, p. xiii - xxiv. xix |
Publishing | Elizabeth Hamilton | EH
appeared intentionally in print for the first time: with an anonymous essay in the Lounger, Henry Mackenzie
's sentimental periodical, published at Edinburgh. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818, 2 vols. 1: 277-91 Perkins, Pamela. Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment. Rodopi, 2010. 67 |
Reception | Anne Grant | The pension was granted following the petition of Sir Walter Scott
(who had praised her writing at the end of Waverley), Perkins, Pamela. “Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy”. Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850, edited by Emma Clery et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, pp. 29-43. 32 |
Textual Features | Frances Brooke | This was one of the earliest novels of sensibility, and was probably influenced by Frances Sheridan
's Sidney Bidulph. Its sentimental content, however, co-exists both with comment on politics and with a coherent plot... |
Textual Features | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | This novel expresses, with remarkable literary skill, a number of remarkable opinions. Emma Walpole relates her story by letter to friends. She marries to please her father after he has forbidden her to marry her... |
Textual Features | Tabitha Tenney | Choice of women writers is fairly generous, with excerpts from Hester Mulso Chapone
, John Aikin
and Anna Letitia Barbauld
(Evenings at Home), Susanna Haswell Rowson
, Elizabeth Carter
, Hester Thrale
,... |
Textual Production | Jane West | JW
published with the Minerva Press
, under the name of the fictional Prudentia Homespun, The Advantages of Education, or, The History of Maria Williams. A Tale for Misses and their Mammas. Prudentia... |