Mary Waldron

The title-page quotation from Paradise Lost features the archangel Raphael's pronouncement that it is better for human beings to know That which before us lies in daily life than things remote. According to critic...

Harriet Corp also responded, in 1817, with Coelebs Deceived, which opens with respectful critical dialogue about More's novel; but Corp's middle-aged protagonist finally decides to stay single. Mary Waldron suggests that Jane Austen 's...

Though literary historian Mary Waldron says that MB took on the running of the business herself, Bryan later told her prospective patron, Sir Walter Scott , that her father took on its management for her...

She said the business was a most promising one, and that she desperately needed the money for her children's support. Biographer Mary Waldron supposes that this work would have been quite incompatible with continuing to...

It occurred to More that while there were already good books enough in the world for good people, the more numerous group of circulating-library readers were unprovided for. She therefore wrote (as she suggested...

AY 's biographer, Mary Waldron , argues that though willing to exploit the element of pathos in her circumstances in order to advance her sales or her reputation, she presented sorrow or suffering less as...

Waldron guesses that Hamilcar appealed to AY because she saw his leadership of the Carthaginians against the Romans in the First Punic War as courageous resistance against encroaching imperial tyranny.

Three more poems which she addressed to him this year are printed for the first time by Mary Waldron in A Different Kind of Patronage, 2002.