Erica Obey

CG 's activities as a collector, hunting for notable pieces of china in competition with other collectors, affected her journals, interrupting their narrative with notes of clues followed and desirable items attained or missed. Her...

CG kept commonplace-books of which apparently only two survive, which date from 1828-30, before her first marriage: Notes on Oriental Subjects (containing notes, vocabulary, excerpts from her reading, and foreign and translated poetry) and a...

Scholar Erica Obey calls these two collections discourses of resistance.

Later negative reaction has been categorized by Erica Obey : many professional scholars dismiss Guest as an amateur, while Welsh scholars in particular call her work cultural appropriation or suggest that she was a mere...