Textual Features |
Jane Marcet |
In The Seasons, one volume represents each season—probably on the model of Anna Letitia Barbauld
's treatment of scenes from each month in turn in writing for children of the same age. These books...
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Intertextuality and Influence |
Anna Maria Mackenzie |
Meanwhile the heroine, Maria Stanley, is unjustly spurned by her husband because he believes the lying insinuations of a jealous and wicked woman whom he has rejected, but the truth is revealed in time for...
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Family and Intimate relationships |
Catharine Macaulay |
The celebrations also included ringing the church bells and presenting CM
with a gold medal. One of the odes (published at Bath the same year) depicts her as triumphing over other, more conservative women writers:...
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Intertextuality and Influence |
Jane Loudon |
JL
's preface explains her creed that it is of the utmost importance to cultivate habits of observation in childhood; as a great deal of the happiness of life depends upon our having our attention...
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Literary responses |
Isabella Lickbarrow |
Anna Letitia Barbauld
very briefly reviewed the collection for the Monthly.
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Education |
Mary Lamb |
It is not clear whether ML
shared her brother Charles's contempt for didactic children's books which stuff the child with insignificant & vapid knowledge instead of appealing to the imagination, which BLIGHTS & BLASTS...
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Textual Features |
Mary Anne Jevons |
An anonymous preface dated from Liverpool in October 1830 said that this annual would not set out to rival more splendid ones: it would offer mostly devotional poems, and none that were not improving. MAJ
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Textual Production |
Ann Jebb |
AJ
published Two Penny-worth of Truth for a Penny; or, A True State of Facts, With an apology for Tom Bull in a letter to brother John, a pamphlet in answer to one by...
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Reception |
Ann Jebb |
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Education |
Anna Brownell Jameson |
Anna was educated by Miss Yokeley
, a governess, who taught her French. After the departure of Miss Yokeley, some time between 1803 and 1806, Anna acted as governess to her sisters. She also taught...
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text |
Anna Brownell Jameson |
The fragments consider the art criticism of Ruskin
and the philosophies of Carlyle
on the question of happiness. Others concern her Anglican faith, sexism in the profession of writing, Joan of Arc
, and her...
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Textual Features |
Muriel Jaeger |
MJ
here traces the shift from eighteenth-century tolerance and scepticism to Victorian religious earnestness. She makes good use of writing during these periods, including writing by women (novels, diaries, letters, memoirs), showing herself a highly...
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Textual Production |
Frances Jacson |
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Intertextuality and Influence |
Frances Jacson |
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Textual Production |
Elizabeth Inchbald |
EI
, or others involved, must have declined to participate in the Longman
's project reported by Catherine Hutton
on 13 June 1816, for a women's periodical intended to bear the names of Inchbald, Barbauld
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