Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958.
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Anthologization | Anna Letitia Barbauld | |
Cultural formation | Hannah Cullwick | To all eyes she lived as Munby's servant; she often still slept in the basement kitchen. In the evenings, however, she played the role of a lady wife, sitting with Munby in the parlour, conversing... |
Education | Harriette Wilson | HW
's story of her education is one of tyranny and resistance. Her worst beating from her father was incurred for obstinacy. Her elder sister Jane (called Diana in her memoirs) was supposed to teach... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The literary society of ALB
's time was, as biographer Betsy Rodgers notes, small and intimate. Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958. 80 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Wollstonecraft | The full title is The Female Reader: or, Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Best Writers, and Disposed under Proper Heads; for the Improvement of Young Women. MW
said she had... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | William Enfield
quoted eight lines from Aikin (as Our Poetess) in dedicating his very popular anthology The Speaker, designed for the teaching of elocution, to the head of Warrington Academy
. Her volume... |
Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | Very few copies sold. Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25. 3 |
Literary responses | Eliza Fenwick | Secresy had six reviews in 1795; EF
wrote much later that they blamed the principles but commended the style & Imagination. Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press, 2019. 71 |
Literary responses | Clara Reeve | The Critical Review (which assumed the author to be male) defined his intention as to interest the imagination . . . by going into the marvellous, without transgressing the bounds of credibility. qtd. in Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 44 (1777): 154 |
Literary responses | Isabella Kelly | The Critical made a basic misjudgement of The Abbey of St. Asaph (seemingly paying more attention to title than to content): it listed all the appurtenances of the Radcliffe
an novel, with which it said... |
Literary responses | Anna Maria Porter | The Critical Review welcomed the first volume, but said this young genius was worthy of, or needed, further cultivation. When volume two rapidly followed, the journal felt that it was premature. It complained that the... |
Literary responses | Anna Maria Mackenzie | William Enfield
in the Monthly Review deplored the injudicious rendering of the simple Bible story into meretricious ornaments of redundant metaphors and prosaic rhythmus [sic]. qtd. in Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 819 |
Literary responses | Anne Plumptre | Antoinette was well reviewed. The Critical hailed a novel which neither endangered its readers' morals nor bored them with constant moralising. It dropped hints about the author's identity which amounted to puffing, saying it believed... |
Literary responses | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The Critical felt that this novel's power of raising feelings is but feeble, though at least such feelings would be on the side of virtue. William Enfield
in the Monthly was much more positive... |
Literary responses | Jane West | The Critical Review cited West's preface approvingly and noted that she had fulfilled the intentions there set out. William Enfield
in the Monthly Review professed himself delighted to see fictional talent successfully employed to efface... |
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