Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber.
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Education | Elizabeth Grant | EG
refers to a number of texts that influenced her as a child. She learned to read by the age of three, taught by loving aunts, and remembered in particular Puss in Boots, Bluebeard... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Grant | During their journeys between London and the Highlands, EG
and her family would stop at various locations where they met interesting people. For example, while resting at Seaham for some time, they became acquainted with... |
Textual Features | Sarah Green | The plot owes something to Charlotte Lennox
's Female Quixote. The father of Green's heroine has lived through many crazes for novelists: first Burney
, then Radcliffe
, then Owenson
, then Rosa Matilda |
Textual Production | Sarah Green | This too was in three volumes from A. K. Newman
of the former Minerva Press
. Its title-page quotes Byron
. |
Education | Germaine Greer | After some years living as a bohemian in Sydney, Greer enrolled at the University of Sydney
for an MA in English. Her thesis subject was The Development of Byron
's Satiric Mode, and she... |
Education | Charlotte Guest | Lady Charlotte received a standard home education. She soon found that she loved serious learning and set out to pursue it. Studying on her own, she discovered and devoured Chaucer
(from whom as an old... |
Education | Elizabeth Ham | EH
continued learning throughout her life. She borrowed books whenever an opportunity arose. She discovered Burns
and took him to her heart, and later, with slightly less enthusiasm, Byron
's Childe Harold. Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber. 179 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Ham | EH
writes without overall construction, jumping from one topic and one anecdote to another. By this means, however, she captures both the inconsequential flavour of a life lived without overall plan and at the whim... |
Literary responses | Mary Agnes Hamilton | The Times Literary Supplement perceptively noted that this story might have been written in refutation of Byron
's dictum: Man's love is a thing apart while it is a woman's whole existence. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press. Carew, Dudley. “Folly’s Handbook”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1331, p. 532. 532 |
Textual Features | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | The business of these poems is to heroicize the British soldiers fighting in Crimea, in such lines as They fell, but died not—heroes cannot die. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1428 (1855): 290 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | The title-page quotes Milton
and an unidentified French writer. Each of the unusually long chapters (four to a volume) is headed by a summary and a quotation, often from Shakespeare
or Byron
or attributed only... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | The title-page quotes Ovid
and the first chapter is headed by Byron
. The convoluted Italian plot of action and mystery opens with a vivid, modern-seeming summer scene suddenly intruded on by horror. The young... |
Literary responses | Ann Hawkshaw | In a review for the Athenæum, George Walter Thornbury
stated abruptly that AH
's collection has at least two merits,—it has no Preface and it has a purpose. Finding that the sonnets do not... |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Byron
considered this poem inadequate as a result of FH
's lack of first-hand knowledge of Greece; her position on the controversial appropriation of the Greek antiquities by Britain also differed from his. Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction”. Records of Woman, edited by Paula R. Feldman, University Press of Kentucky, p. xi - xxxiii. xvi Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Felicia Hemans | Nevertheless, the Romantic Circles Electronic Edition of this poem edited by Nanora Sweet
and Barbara Taylor
represents it as a much more open and indeed sceptical text than FH
's own comment suggests, and subtitles... |
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