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Literary responses | Ann Yearsley | More
and Elizabeth Montagu
admired AY
as a primitive, untrained writer whose excellence came from nature, not from carefully nurtured ability: as a phenomenon verging on a freak. More's Prefatory Letter to Yearsley's Poems, on... |
Publishing | Helen Maria Williams | The Poems were in two volumes, with HMW
's name in full, published by Rivington and Marshall
, with an engraved frontispiece drawn by Maria Cosway
. Subscribers included the Prince of Wales
(whose name... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Smith | It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard
did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children... |
Publishing | Eliza Parsons | She gave her name as Mrs. Parsons on the title-page and signed the dedication with both her names. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 512 |
Publishing | Mary Ann Parker | Her subscribers included many naval and some military personnel, a sprinkling of the nobility, Sir Joseph Banks
and (separately) his wife
, Frances Boscawen
(bluestocking and admiral's widow), Hannah More
, and printer-antiquary John Bowyer Nichols |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke
in Bristol the previous September... |
Leisure and Society | Hannah More | Frances Boscawen
commissioned another portrait of her, by John Opie
(husband of Amelia Opie). Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 57 |
Wealth and Poverty | Hannah More | HM
left more than one-third of her estate—over £10,000—to charity. She left money locally (to pensioners, and the poor, and Female Clubs), and to institutions (both nationally and to Bristol branches) like the Anti-Slavery Society |
Literary responses | Hannah More | Frances Boscawen
planted people in the audience briefed to lead the applause. The audience in fact loved the play, and its low number of performances is ascribed by HM
's biographer M. G. Jones
to... |
Textual Production | Hannah More | HM
's Sensibility (a poem addressed to Frances Boscawen
) appeared in print together with her Sacred Dramas, by March 1782. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 53 (1782): 199 Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press. 188 |
Literary responses | Hannah More | |
Publishing | Hannah More | By 23 July 1794, following the appearance of Paine's The Age of Reason, Porteus was urging More to write on the evidences of Christianity in the style of her Village Politics. She declined... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | The leading figures in the movement were Montagu herself (who spent freely in hospitality, and who was later dubbed the Queen of the Bluestockings or Queen of the Blues) and Carter
(the most intellectually... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | She was a well-known figure in London cultural circles, particularly that of the Bluestockings. Charles Burney
called her at-home evenings blue conversazioni's and Horace Walpole
called them quite Mazarine-blue. Others specifically mentioned in... |
Publishing | Alethea Lewis | AL
's dedication to Sir Edward Littleton
, Member of Parliament for Stafford, praises him in this capacity and as a landlord. Her subscribers include many friends or relations, as well as writers like... |
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