Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Plumptre | In December 1800 Amelia Opie noted that AP
was a little in love as usual, and contrasted her in this respect with her more studious sister Bell. Anne is now known to have had an... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | |
Friends, Associates | Mary Hays | Among her early mentors MH
numbered Robert Robinson
, William Frend
(whose friendship she owed to her first book publication), and George Dyer
. Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993. 82 |
Friends, Associates | Ann Jebb | During her last years AJ
became a friend of George Wilson Meadley
, whom she met in 1808, when Meadley was writing a biography of William Paley and she made copies of correspondence for him... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | The Lambs also knew well members of related circles, Robert Southey
, William Hazlitt
, and Thomas De Quincey
. In the first year of her new life Mary met William Godwin
, Thomas Manning |
Friends, Associates | Ann Batten Cristall | ABC
may have met the poet George Dyer
through her brother; Dyer visited at Joshua's London lodgings and had a platonic affection for Elizabeth Cristall, who was living with her brother around 1795. Roget, John Lewis. A History of the Old Water-Colour Society. Longmans, Green, 1891, 2 vols. 1:190, 189 |
Friends, Associates | Maria De Fleury | MDF
clearly enjoyed close and amicable relations with a large circle centred on the congregation to which she belonged. One particular friend, whom she calls Miranda, was of special importance to her. In the Oxford... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Hays | Among the book's contents are poems and fiction (including dream visions and an Oriental tale. Titles like Cleora, or the Misery Attending Unsuitable Connections and Josepha, or pernicious Effects of early Indulgence foreground Hays's didactic... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Batten Cristall | The preface expresses admiration for both Burns
and George Dyer
. ABC
stresses her lack of education (which, critic Richard C. Sha
argues, associates herself with lower-class writers like William Blake
and Henry Kirke White |
Literary responses | Helen Maria Williams | Not content with disagreeing with HMW
over the value and the cost of revolutionary change, the Critical and others, such as the English Review, explicitly linked this work's perceived faults with its author's gender.... |
Literary responses | Mary Hays | William Frend
had read the work in manuscript and been much pleased, though he took the liberty of suggesting a few revisions. qtd. in Hays, Mary. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist. Editor Brooks, Marilyn, Edwin Mellen, 2004. 244 |
Literary responses | Ann Jebb | George Dyer
warmly praised AJ
in his poem On Liberty, which appeared in his Poems of 1792. Since he also praised Wollstonecraft
's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Charlotte Smith
,... |
Literary responses | Ann Batten Cristall | The Critical Review discerned in the collection considerable merit and the hand of genius: so much so that it felt it safe to overlook a few blemishes (though it mentioned some for the sake... |
Publishing | Ann Batten Cristall | Subscribers included Anna Letitia Barbauld
and her brother
, Ann Jebb
, the future Amelia Opie
, Anna Maria Porter
, Mary Wollstonecraft
and her sister, Mary Hays
and her sister, a Mrs Spence who... |
Textual Production | Ann Batten Cristall |
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