Catharine Strickland (later CPT
) had her heart broken by Francis Harral
, son of the journal editor Thomas Harral
, at the end of a two-year engagement.
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Friends, Associates
Jane Porter
While living in Esher, the Porter family were neighbours of Prince Leopold
, resident of Claremont and widower of Princess Charlotte (who died in 1817); their mother used to receive gifts of game and fruit...
Intertextuality and Influence
Susanna Moodie
Critic Carl Ballstadt
numbers Suffolk writers Thomas Harral
and James Bird
among SM
's most important influences. Her sketches are also indebted to Mary Russell Mitford
, with whom she corresponded.
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Publishing
Susanna Moodie
Her prose and poetry appeared regularly from 1827 until late 1829 or 1830. Some falling out occurred with editor Thomas Harral
in the spring of 1829, perhaps having to do with the moral tone of...
Publishing
Jane Porter
In her later years JP
wrote for military and popular journals,
gift-books and annuals (beginning with Friendship's Offering for 1826, which was published in Novewmber 1825) and including Fraser's Magazine, Samuel Hall
's...