Broome, J. R. A Bruised Reed. Anne Steele: Her Life and Times. Gospel Standard Trust Publications, 2007.
203, 210
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Anne Steele | Pickering and Chatto
includes AS
's Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse and Prose, 1780, and Verses for Children, 1788 (as well as work by Mary Scott
, Steele's niece Mary
, and Maria Grace Saffery |
Anthologization | Mary Scott | Pickering and Chatto
includes published and unpublished writings by MS
(as well as work by Anne Steele
, her niece Mary Steele, later Dunscombe
, Elizabeth Heyrick
, and Maria Grace Saffery
) in the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Steele | AS
's niece Polly (Mary Steele, later Dunscombe
, daughter of her brother William) came under her care after death of her mother, William's first wife, in May 1762. Her aunt was her second... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Steele | It was very likely her niece
who composed a passionate verse lament for AS
, which is printed before her posthumous Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse and Prose. The unnamed writer says she has lost... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Steele | AS
evidently chose her friends at least partly for their literary interests, since they included three publishing women of a younger generation—Hannah More
, Anna Seward
, and (a closer friend than the first... |
Health | Anne Steele | During the last nine years of her life AS
suffered from a variety of physical complaints. She was seriously ill in June 1771, Broome, J. R. A Bruised Reed. Anne Steele: Her Life and Times. Gospel Standard Trust Publications, 2007. 203, 210 |
Residence | Anne Steele | Broughton (where AS
lived all her life) lies among the chalk downs on the border of Wiltshire and Hampshire, a few miles from Danebury, a hill crowned with Bronze Age fortifications, about which her... |
Textual Features | Anne Steele | On first reaching print this collection consisted of seven poems to or for Steele's nephews and nieces, including one to Polly Steele, later Dunscombe
(1753-1813). The Bampton edition retitled the poems, and added one more... |
Textual Production | Anne Steele | Danebury: or The Power of Friendship, A Tale, a verse narrative of female friendship, heroism, and self-sacrifice by AS
's niece and pupil Mary Polly Steele
(later Dunscombe), was published as by a... |
Textual Production | Anne Steele | AS
exchanged occasional poems over the span of her life with other women in her circle of correspondents: primarily her sister Mary Steele, later Wakeford
, whom she called Amira, but also her niece... |
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