Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Anna Miller
Standard Name: Miller, Anna,, Lady
Birth Name: Anna Riggs
Used Form: Anne Riggs
Used Form: Anna Riggs-Miller
Pseudonym: An English Woman
Titled: Lady
Indexed Name: Lady Anna Riggs Miller
Anna, Lady Miller, is best-known as a patron of poetry during the later eighteenth century. She published a travel book, and a serial collection of the poems entered for the performance-oriented contests at which she presided (including poems of her own).
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...
Textual Features
Anna Letitia Barbauld
The title echoes Les Veillées du Chateau by Genlis
, transposed for middle-class rather than upper-class children.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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A framing narrative tells how the parents of a large family solicit fables, dialogues, and so on...