Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe. “Preface”. Agatha, edited by John Goss.
forthcoming
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Eleanor Anne Porden | By the age of nine or ten EAP
was attending science lectures given by Sir Humphry Davy
and others at the Royal Institution
in London. One commentator, Desmond King-Hele
, argues that she gathered... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Seward | At least in her mature years, AS
had a low opinion of marriage, though there were various stories of her nearly marrying (or wishing to marry) various men beginning with Erasmus Darwin
, then her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charles Darwin | His paternal grandfather was the scientist and poet Erasmus Darwin
. |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | Samuel Pipe Wolferstan"s friends included Erasmus Darwin
, Anna Seward
, Thomas Gisborne
, and the novelist Robert Bage
. Of EPW
's own friends, Mary Gresley
was seriously pursued by her husband before he married Elizabeth. Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe. “Preface”. Agatha, edited by John Goss. forthcoming |
Friends, Associates | Frances Jacson | The Jacson sisters became acquainted with the literary circle in Lichfield which also included Erasmus Darwin
, Anna Seward
, and Thomas Day
, as well as their cousin Sir Brooke Boothby
, who probably introduced them there. Shteir, Ann B. “Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women’s Popular Science Writing in England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 23 , No. 3, 1 Mar.–31 May 1990, pp. 301-17. 308 |
Friends, Associates | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | Probably through their cousin Sir Brooke Boothby
, the Jacson sisters became acquainted with an intellectually-minded group of people of both sexes based in Lichfield: Erasmus Darwin
as well as Anna Seward
and Thomas Day |
Friends, Associates | Anna Seward | Nine years later her meeting with the provincial literary hostess Anne, Lady Miller
, marked the beginning of a wide and deep acquaintance with the literary world beyond Lichfield. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 36-7, 71 |
Health | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | She had for years been subject to migraines after which she would be troubled by her eyes. She now suffered extreme pain, was kept in the dark for months, and was left with an eye... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | The poem on the goddess Flora, with which CS
prefaces this book, is clearly a response to Erasmus Darwin
's Botanic Garden, 1789-91, which she called one of her favourite books. But the little... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare
, Milton
, Pope
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, William Mason
, John Langhorne
, Burns
, Erasmus Darwin
, Edward Young |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | This book appeared, like her next, as by a Lady; the British Library
copy (filmed for Eighteenth Century Collections Online) has a manuscript note identifying the author on the printed testimony of Erasmus... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | Apparently finding an adult instead of a juvenile readership something of a liberation, she designed this book specifically as an introduction to the English translation of The System of Vegetables by Linnaeus
, published in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Seward | AS
was writing religious verse at ten or twelve years old. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 8 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Seward | With this work appeared AS
's Ode to the Sun. Richard Lovell Edgeworth
later categorically alleged that the best passages in the elegy were in fact written by Erasmus Darwin
, and this story... |