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Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy
, where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron
(Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray
. At London parties... |
Friends, Associates | Maria Edgeworth | By now ME
was a celebrity, and could count on being introduced to the local literati when she travelled. On this visit to London she finally met Etiénne Dumont
, the utilitarian, with whom she... |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Fanshawe | CF
's friends included other highly literate middle-class women such as Mary Berry
and Anne Grant
in Edinburgh. (Her friendship with Grant was maintained entirely by correspondence—she and her sisters hoped to visit Edinburgh in... |
Health | Amelia Opie | By the time of the Great Exhibition AO
was confined to a wheelchair. She did not, however, allow this to damp her spirits, but is said to have proposed a race with Mary Berry
... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | More lays her heaviest emphasis on the need for observing propriety. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 195 Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 117 |
Literary responses | Catherine Fanshawe | CF
's immediately posthumous reputation rested, like her writings themselves, on oral tradition. She had the admiration of William Cowper
and Walter Scott
, as well as Joanna Baillie
, Anne Grant
, and Mary Berry |
Literary responses | Lady Rachel Russell | As love-letters, they made a great and immediate impression on their readers. Yet later this year Mary Russell Mitford
wrote of LRR
with dislike. Mitford found her heavy, preachy, and prosy. As a writer, she... |
Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | The Critical Review assumed the author was male. It thought the versification monotonous but warmly praised both preface and plays. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 24 (1798): 1-22 |
Occupation | Anne Damer | AD
appeared in private theatricals first at her brother-in-law the Duke of Richmond
's, and later at Strawberry Hill. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 97 |
Reception | Hannah More | Again this work generated both a flood of praise (much of it in letters, some coming from religious leaders or from royalty) and a storm of criticism and abuse. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 120 |
Reception | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry
took the lead in promoting the volume. Baillie, Joanna. “Editorial Materials”. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, edited by Judith Bailey Slagle, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, pp. ix - xiv, 1. 11 |
Residence | Mary Somerville | MS
and her family took up residence for the season at 6 Curzon Street, London, next to their friends Mary
and Agnes Berry
. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 51, 205n119 |
Textual Features | Catherine Fanshawe | |
Textual Features | Lydia Maria Child | LMC
's first four subjects were all known for their writings and for their resistance to tyrannical authority, either political or religious, but she is more interested here in what she alleges to have been... |
Textual Features | Lady Rachel Russell | Mary Berry
mentions a sort of review of her life written by LRR
in old age, lamenting her lack of fervour in religious belief and particularly her inability to arrive at a perfect state of... |
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