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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hester Mulso Chapone | HMC
was still reading and commenting on others' works into her old age. She read and remarked on Hester Piozzi
, Charlotte Smith
, Edward Gibbon
, Erasmus Darwin
's The Loves of the Plants... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson
(whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), Grant, Anne. Letters from the Mountains. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 2: 45-8 |
Textual Production | Anna Seward | AS
published through Joseph JohnsonMemoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin
, chiefly during his residence at Lichfield, with Anecdotes of his Friends, and Criticisms on his Writings. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 236 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Features | Priscilla Wakefield | Shteir notes that the teachings of Tournefort
as well as Linnaeus are invoked. Wakefield expounds Linnean taxonomy, using as her examples such native British plants as would be easy for amateur botanists to observe around... |
Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror... |
Textual Features | Maria Riddell | MR
's own twenty poems include prefatory verses as editor, written for the occasion. She prints work by the late Henrietta O'Neill
(the well-known Ode to the Poppy), Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire
(St... |
Author summary | Frances Arabella Rowden | FAR
, a schoolteacher by profession in the early nineteenth century, published mostly with instruction in mind. She began with a textbook on botany (designed to sanitize that topic after the work of Erasmus Darwin |
Author summary | Anna Seward | AS
, living at a distance from London, was nevertheless a woman of letters, of the later eighteenth century and just beyond. She staked her claim to fame firstly on her poetry (though she was... |
Occupation | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | MEJ
became a keen and knowledgeable botanist who carried out her own experiments (into the function of nectar, for instance) and made coloured sketches of plants. Erasmus Darwin
praised her coloured drawing of the Venus... |
Literary responses | Maria Elizabetha Jacson | On 24 August 1795Erasmus Darwin
and Sir Brooke Boothby
wrote a joint letter to Maria Jacson in praise of Botanical Dialogues, which they had read in manuscript. They even expressed the hope that... |
Literary responses | Frances Arabella Rowden | The Anti-Jacobin, while acknowledging that FAR
had avoided Darwin
's faults as far as possible, wished she had not followed him at all. The Poetical Register, however, found her work elegant, and that... |
Literary responses | Anne Damer | AD
's art and her gender made her a kind of tourist attraction. She complained of being teazed and tired to death with the number of persons coming to see her work, and making crass... |
Leisure and Society | Anna Seward | She was a keen concert-goer (partly, no doubt, because of her involvement with the musician John Saville
). She attended music festivals at both Manchester and Birmingham. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 134, 233 |
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... |
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... |