Burney, Frances. Journals and Letters. Editors Sabor, Peter and Lars E. Troide, Penguin.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Joanna Baillie | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
produces for this much-lamented occasion a simple, dignified poem: perceptive about the workings of public feeling, and remarkable for its reminder that a tear should be spared for the mad grandfather George III
... |
Textual Production | Henrietta Battier | Soon afterwards (though at a later age than the fifteen years which she claimed) she embarked on complimentary occasional verse in the form of an elegy for Lady Townshend
(wife of the then fourth Viscount and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland |
Dedications | Anna Maria Bennett | Publishing it in the year of her protector
's death, she dedicated it to the King
's eldest daughter, Princess Charlotte-Augusta-Matilda
, the Princess Royal. It was said that the whole edition sold out in... |
Dedications | Anna Maria Bennett | This was again anonymous; some thought it by Frances Burney
. AMB
dedicated it to another of George III
's children, Prince William Henry
(a naval officer who would be in a position to offer... |
Other Life Event | Frances Burney | FB
, walking on doctor's orders in Kew Gardens and understanding that the madking
was safely elsewhere, was accosted by him and (still following orders) ran away. Burney, Frances. Journals and Letters. Editors Sabor, Peter and Lars E. Troide, Penguin. 280ff |
Material Conditions of Writing | Frances Burney | FB
began on her first tragedy, Edwy and Elgiva, as royal Keeper of the Robes during the most frightening phase of the king
's illness. Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press. 179 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Burney | Among the pleasures of FB
's life-writing are the way it revels in nonce-words and other innovative uses of language, and the play it makes with dramatic techniques like scene-setting and dialogue. Many famous passages... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Chatterton | GC
's uncle William Morton Pitt
was a Member of Parliament representing Dorset for nearly fifty years. He worked fervently on behalf of the poor, and lobbied constantly for improved prison conditions. He also regularly... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Cobbold | The frontispiece features a portrait of the cookery writer Hannah Glasse
(drawn by EC
herself), who is heroicised in the text. This poem answers The Sovereign, a poem by Charles Small Pybus
, addressed... |
Textual Production | Mary Collier | MC
, aged seventy-one, wrote the last datable poem in her volume Poems, on Several Occasions: On the Marriage of George the Third. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under George III |
Textual Features | Margaret Croker | |
Occupation | Anne Damer | AD
was not only a diarist, novelist, and amateur actress: she became, from the 1780s, a successful and even famous sculptor. Andrew Elfenbein
notes the application to her of such terms as female genius and... |
Textual Production | Anne Damer | AD
's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury |
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