S. Austin Allibone

Standard Name: Allibone, S. Austin

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names Harriet Smythies
  • BirthName: Harriet Maria Gordon
    Both Allibone and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography spell her first name Harriette.

  • Nickname: Queen of the Domestic Novel
    Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

  • Self-constructed: Mrs Yorick Smythies
    Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols.
    Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
    ; Mrs Gordon Smythies
    Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols.
    Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
    When she left...
Reception Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
The concluding, summarising accounts of her quoted in S. Austin Allibone 's Critical Dictionary of English Literature dwell more on her beauty and style of dress than her literary achievements, though those too are praised....
Textual Production Harriet Smythies
Amelia (Mrs Gillespie) Smyth published The Romance of Diplomacy, a history of Caroline Matilda (sister of George III and Queen of Denmark) and of Sir Robert Murray Keith . Allibone attributes this, wrongly, to...
Textual Production Harriet Smythies
Allibone also wrongly credits HS with Amelia Gillespie Smyth's Fit to be a Duchess, with other stories of courage and principle (1860), and the following year's Mornings with Mama.
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Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.
Textual Production Flora Shaw
FS published Castle Blair, a work of children's fiction: the title-page says 1878, but bibliographer S. Austin Allibone gives the date as 1877, so the book was probably post-dated.
Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols.
Bell, E. Moberly. Flora Shaw. Constable, 1947.
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Textual Production May Laffan
According to scholar Helena Kelleher Kahn , the first American edition of ML 's realist novel Christy Carew appeared in 1878, although standard library catalogues record no edition before 1880.
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005.
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Kahn stands almost alone...
Textual Production Anne Marsh
From the anonymous Woman's Devotion, 1855, by Julia Cecilia Stretton , onwards, a string of ten titles published as by the author of have often in the past been wrongly ascribed to AM ...

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1824: Mary, Lady Shepherd, published her first...

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1824

Mary, Lady Shepherd , published her first major philosophical work, An Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect, a critique of the fourth of David Hume 's Philosophical Essays.
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Kersey, Ethel M. Women Philosophers: A Bio-Critical Source Book. Greenwood, 1989.
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Texts

Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.
Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols.