| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Fletcher | Hamilton, herself a conservative, set about de-demonizing EF
's political reputation. She had good success in persuading her friends that Mrs Fletcher was not the ferocious Democrat she had been represented, and that she neither... |
| Friends, Associates | Henry Peter, Baron Brougham | Brougham had a number of friends among women writers. He was at primary school in Edinburgh with Susan Ferrier
(who, however, declined to acknowledge him later, probably for political reasons). His political work brought him... |
| Friends, Associates | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | They had houses, or mansions, in Tyrone, in Scotland, and at Stanmore Priory near London; they treated the celebrated writer as a kind of household pet, even making fun of her nationalist... |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Charlotte Bury | An early acquaintance was the future novelist Susan Ferrier
(nearly eight years her junior), who often visited Inverary Castle with her father, who was estate manager to Lady Charlotte's father and worked on legal busines... |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Jenkins | In wartime lunch hours EJ
used to browse in the bookshops of Tottenham Court Road: among items for sale she noticed Susan Ferrier
's The Inheritance, 1824, and one of the fifty privately-printed... |
| Literary responses | Susanna Centlivre | SC
is said to have made a very good living from the theatre in the later years of her career, and to have cannily invested her savings in portable property like jewellery and silverware. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
| Literary responses | Mary Ann Kelty | Reviewers praised this novel for its depiction of character and its intimate knowledge of the human heart.The Monthly Magazine singled out its impeccable morality, suitable for a young and female readership. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
| Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | She herself thought this better than her novels, but Thackeray
satirised it as Heavenly Chords; A Collection of Sacred Strains by Lady Frances Juliana Flummery. Susan Ferrier
agreed with the author that the prayers... |
| Literary responses | Catherine Sinclair | Timothy C. Baker
has noted that recent scholarship follows CS
's contemporaries in overlooking her adult novels. For the monument-makers, Sinclair's fame rests on a combination of civic and literary achievement; curiously, however, her widely... |
| Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | Susan Ferrier
, having helped to ease the novel's passage into print, wrote to one of her sisters with a very early copy, saying that she thought it had beautiful descriptions but too many of... |
| Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | Edward Copeland
argues that this text, though designed to ride the wave of the new silver-fork novel, draws its influences from an earlier generation: Frances Burney
, Susan Ferrier
, and Richardson
's Sir Charles... |
| Publishing | Lady Charlotte Bury | |
| Reception | Mary Ann Kelty | Susan Ferrier
's sister Helen Kinloch
saw Trials: A Tale as a sad comedown after The Favourite of Nature: she joked that it was a trial to read. Ferrier, Susan, and John Ferrier. Memoir and Correspondence of Susan Ferrier, 1782-1854. Doyle, John AndrewEditor , Eveleigh Nash and Grayson, 1929. 181 |
| Reception | Catherine Sinclair | Moira Burgess
, writing on Scottish women's fiction, found Beatrice's tone and sentiment a startling departure from Sinclair's earlier work, but concluded that in those disturbing mid-century years of industrial revolution and sudden Irish... |
| Textual Features | Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne | In the traditional version of The Laird o' Cockpen (he's proud and he's great), the laird opts for marriage with a girl of lower rank: this song reinforced the comforting idea that true... |
