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Friends, Associates | Catherine Hutton | CH
's friends included novelists Sarah Harriet Burney
and Robert Bage
, publisher Sir Richard Phillips
, Elizabeth Arnold
(whom she calls sister of Catharine Macaulay
, but who was actually the sister of Macaulay's... |
Textual Production | Lucille Iremonger | LI
published two biographies of English princesses: of Princess Sophia
, daughter of George III
(who bore a child to an unidentified father), in 1958, and of Queen Victoria
's daughters in 1982. In 1981... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Brownell Jameson | By 1840, ABJ
expressed a desire to be of service to Lady Byron
in her affairs. When Elizabeth Medora Leigh
(supposedly the daughter of Byron
and his half-sister Augusta Leigh
) arrived in England to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Her essay The Poet as Teacher calls for universal education on the grounds that it is ignorance that degrades, not poverty or toil. Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde,. Social Studies. Ward and Downey. 274 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jenkins | EJ
published her first historical biography, that of Lady Caroline Lamb
(writer and lover of Byron
). It was the first full-length study of Lady Caroline to reach print. In 2010 Contemporary Authors, inexplicably... |
Education | Pauline Johnson | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ellen Johnston | In contrast to the life-writings of her working-class contemporary Hannah Cullwick
, EJ
's autobiography is remarkably self-reflexive and literary. She says that an account of her life in Dundee alone, her trials, disappointments, joys... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen
, though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau
on the topic of the sensitive... |
Textual Features | Adelaide Kemble | Bessie and her more assertive friend Ursula Hamilton are challenged by men in their social circle about the alleged inferiority of women, as proved by their failure to produce serious artistic work. Bessie thinks of... |
Education | Fanny Kemble | Fanny's reading here was important to her. She later regarded her close knowledge of the Bible as the greatest benefit I derived from my school training, Kemble, Fanny. Records of a Girlhood. Henry Holt. 81 |
Textual Features | Fanny Kemble | Of the hundred lyrics and sonnets, several cover topics of romance: My soul grows faint, my veins run liquid flame, / And my bewildered spirit seems to swim / In eddying whirls of passion, dizzily... |
Literary responses | Rudyard Kipling | RK
's reputation as a writer skyrocketed after he arrived in London in 1889. His biographer C. E. Carrington
declares that there had been nothing like his sudden rise to fame since Byron
's much-quoted... |
Literary responses | L. E. L. | Owing in large part to an article in The Wasp on 7 October 1826, reception of LEL's work was adversely affected in some quarters by rumours that her relationship with William Jerdan
was sexual and... |
Textual Features | L. E. L. | LEL's work was more varied, particularly in the miscellaneous poetry attached to such collections prefaced by longer poems, than has been recognized. Although much of her poetry does invoke sentiment, there is also a strongly... |
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