She also made male friends who treated her as an intellectual equal (this list overlaps with that of her lovers). She corresponded with Henry Brougham
and with Byron
. Brougham, the liberal lawyer—anti-abolitionist, pro-Queen-Caroline...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Harriette Wilson
The Memoirs' opening moves smoothly from the famous shock of the first sentence into a tone of judicious complexity: I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the...
Textual Production
Harriette Wilson
HW
had been writing lively, idiosyncratic letters all her life (of which those to Byron
, for instance, survive). Her Memoirs were a venture not only in publishing but also in blackmail. Having completed enough...
Publishing
Harriette Wilson
HW
's actual surviving letters to Byron
were published (with some editorial revising and omission) in the Cornhill Magazine in April 1935.
Thirkell, Angela. The Fortunes of Harriette. Hamish Hamilton.
203
Those to Brougham
(written 1824-32) followed in book form in 1975. Those...
Publishing
Harriette Wilson
HW
talked of translating Byron
's Don Juan into a new stile of French blank versification,
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber.
167
and sent him a stanza of it in French as a sample. She sent poems of hers to Brougham.
Wilson, Harriette. “Editorial Materials”. The Blackmailing of the Chancellor, edited by Kenneth Bourne, Lemon Tree Press, p. Various pages.