Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
70 (1790): 582
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Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Austen | Eliza was a woman of the world. She was born in India and may have been the daughter not of her legal father but of Warren Hastings
. She seems to have been an important... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Stockdale | MS
's father, John Stockdale
, having been acquitted for publishing a libel (attacking the House of Commons
over Warren Hastings
), himself printed The Whole Proceedings on the Trial . . . against John Stockdale. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 70 (1790): 582 |
Friends, Associates | Cassandra Cooke | |
Literary responses | Jane Porter | Again her work was extremely popular. The French translation was banned by Napoleon
because of its portrayal of nationalist resistance to conquest. 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. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Phebe Gibbes | The first edition of this novel, advertised for sale in May and priced at seven shillings and sixpence, is now extremely rare. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 473 English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. Gibbes, Phebe. “Introduction”. Hartly House, Calcutta, edited by Michael J. Franklin, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. xi - lvii. xix |
politics | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | He held office under the Whigs, played a role in the trial of Warren Hastings
, became an intimate friend of the Prince of Wales
, and was a vital player (with Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire |
politics | Martha Hale | MH
seems to have been a moderate conservative in politics. She objected strongly to colonial exploitation, taking Warren Hastings
as a champion of colonial subjects rather than an exploiter. By the late 1790s she was... |
Publishing | Martha Hale | Subscribers included the Prince of Wales
and other royalty, Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, her daughter the Countess of Carlisle
, Charles Burney
, Warren Hastings
, Miss De Camp (later Maria Theresa Kemble) |
Publishing | Elizabeth Hamilton | |
Textual Features | Christian Isobel Johnstone | The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon
(Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones
(Read and you will know). Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Diversions of Hollycot. Oliver and Boyd, 1828. title-page |
Textual Production | John Oliver Hobbes | On her return from India, JOH
began work on an historical novel about eighteenth-century Calcutta (now Kolkata), and Anglo-Indian social life during the time of Warren Hastings
and the East India Company
. This... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Burney | Among the pleasures of FB
's life-writing are the way it revels in nonce-words and other innovative uses of language, and the play it makes with dramatic techniques like scene-setting and dialogue. Many famous passages... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Leah Sumbel | Over the signature Old Kent, Mary Wells (later LS
) contributed to The World theatre criticism and reports of, for instance, the trial of Warren Hastings
. She and her friend Elizabeth Inchbald
supplied... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Martha Hale | She writes on public themes with equal panache, attacking colonial appropriations and in another poem calling Warren Hastings
an oppressed hero. She addresses public men and women, and here too is attentive to women's issues... |
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