Erasmus Darwin

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...

MR 's daughter grew up to be a writer, and to publish two books under her own name as well as revising and editing work by MR . Hers are the gothic, epistolary Minerva novel...

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

She dedicated the work to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (aunt of her pupil Lady Caroline Lamb ), who blooms the sweetest flow'r in Britain's isle. She explained its genesis in an advertisement (dated 23 May...

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...

MAS adds a new aesthetic category, the contemplative sublime, alongside the Burke an or terrible sublime and other categories related to the Burkean beautiful. She derives her thinking from women as well as men. In...

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.

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...

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...

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. She was on terms...

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. She also enjoyed keeping pets...

AS was writing religious verse at ten or twelve years old. When she was fifteen Erasmus Darwin , who had formed a high opinion of the originality of her verses, took an opportunity while...

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...

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

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...