Once an omnivorous reader, HM
restricted her choice of books in later life, in line with her religious convictions. She delighted in William Cowper
as a poet whom I can read on Sunday.
qtd. in
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
90
From...
Literary responses
Mary Collyer
This was not to the Critical's taste. It had already this year declared its dislike of German poetry, and slammed Mary Scott
's Messiah.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
16 (1763): 393-4
Now it called Mr Collyer's translation...
Textual Features
Frances Arabella Rowden
An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820)
Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times. 1829.
1829, iv
explains that the book is written for the young scholar and hopes to demonstrate the connexion between ancient and modern literature (the...
Textual Production
Mary Robinson
She told Jane Porter
on 27 August 1800 that this translation (which she began and finished in ten days although she was seriously ill) was a torment to her.
Robinson, Mary. The Works of Mary Robinson. Editor Brewer, William D., Pickering and Chatto, 2009–2010, 8 vols.
EM
's completion of Mary Collyer
's translation of Klopstock
(The Messiah) appeared, bearing her name.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production
Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
EOB
published Klopstock
and His Friends: A Series of Familiar Letters, written between the years 1750 and 1803: her own translation.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 5: 558
Textual Production
Mary Collyer
MC
's translation from the German of Frederick Klopstock
's The Messiah was posthumously published by her husband
.
Feminist Companion Archive.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.