Anna Miller

JJ 's eldest child, her daughter Barbara , remained unmarried. She developed her literary ability in poetry as well as in familiar letters, and in 1776 won a prize for poems submitted to Lady Miller

Nine years later her meeting with the provincial literary hostess Anne, Lady Miller , marked the beginning of a wide and deep acquaintance with the literary world beyond Lichfield. She was on terms...

When these two settled at Batheaston, they became part of a circle of women that included friends they had already made: Sarah Fielding, Elizabeth Cutts , Margaret Riggs (whose daughter was to continue the...

After JJ 's death, her children Barbara and Robert Augustus (born 1745) became intimates of the Bath poetry circle of Anne, Lady Miller .

Frances Burney preferred HMB , as more kind and gentle, to her sister Frances Bowdler. Burney amusingly records a visit by herself, HMB and others, to Lady Miller of Batheaston on 8 June 1780, when...

The Mitchell Library in Sydney holds a manuscript album of ED 's poems entitled The Vase comprising Songs for Music and Poems . . . 1814-1866, whose title sounds like an allusion to the...

EAP was an active participant in the literary society of London. She recited her own poems to guests at the Royal Institution , and she ran a literary society called The Attic Chest...

The title-page of this initially three-volume work calls the authors the Miss Minifies of Fairwater in Somersetshire—thus linking their identity with their rank. The long subscription list includes Frances Boscawen , Jonas Hanway

In the society that Morgan depicts, the Irish Catholic gentry are mostly absent, scattered in European exile. The peasantry, dirt-poor but generous-hearted, include Tim O'Leary, schoolmaster of a hedge school, scholar and expert in Irish...

The title echoes Les Veillées du Chateau by Genlis , transposed for middle-class rather than upper-class children. A framing narrative tells how the parents of a large family solicit fables, dialogues, and so on...

It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children...

AS contributed (by post) a poem, Invocation of the Comic Muse, to the vase of Lady Miller at Batheaston.

AS , by now known as a published poet, printed through Robinson a Poem to the Memory of Lady Millar [sic], who had died the previous June after offering her early encouragement.

This single volume is available from Chawton House LibraryNovels Online at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488.. The title-page quotes Miller (presumably Anne, Lady Miller , of the Batheaston vase).

AJV was the second most prolific contributor (after Porden herself) to Eleanor Anne Porden 's Attic Chest during the years of its flourishing, 1808-15. Porden followed the model of Anna, Lady Miller 's Batheaston Vase...