Betty Schellenberg

Standard Name: Schellenberg, Betty
Used Form: Betty A. Schellenberg

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Montagu
Hannah More 's biographer M. G. Jones dated the heyday of the Bluestocking salons as 1770-85, but EM had been holding salons for twenty years before this.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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The Bluestocking Circle, 1990, by Sylvia Harcstark Myers
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Sheridan
The Editor's Introduction names not only Richardson , but also John Home , whose tragedy Douglas, read aloud in the novel's opening pages, reminds Sidney's friend Cecilia of the old story of Sidney's distresses...
Literary responses Margaret Minifie
The Critical belatedly noted: She is now no longer in partnership, but sets up for herself.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
50 (1780): 168
It approved the novel's morally didactic tone, its style, characters, and narrative, but warned that it...
Literary responses Susannah Gunning
Modern critics have discussed the style of sentimental heroine favoured in the novels dating from the years of SG 's collaboration with her sister Margaret Minifie . Janet Todd has claimed that these female protagonists...
names Margaret Minifie
  • BirthName: Margaret Minifie
  • Pseudonym: Miss Minifie
    Different works bear her name either as Miss Minifie and Miss M. Minifie—a discrepancy which may, suspects scholar Betty Schellenberg , carry a meaning not yet decoded.
Occupation Frances Sheridan
Critic Betty A. Schellenberg points out that FS wielded enough influence to secure two successive military positions for a protegé of her cousin Samuel Whyte .
Shellenberg, Betty A. “Frances Sheridan Reads John Home: Placing Sidney Bidulph in the Republic of Letters”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
13
, No. 4, July 2001, pp. 561-77.
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Textual Production Charlotte Lennox
She had written most of it by November 1751. With Johnson as mediator, she consulted Richardson about revisions, denouement, optimum length (she reduced her plan from three volumes to two), and about her choice of...

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Eger, Elizabeth. “‘Out rushed a female to protect the Bard’: The Bluestocking Defense of Shakespeare”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 127-51.
Magrath, Jane. “’Rags of Mortality’: Negotiating the Body in the Bluestocking Letters”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 235-56.
Guest, Harriet. “Bluestocking Feminism”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 59-80.
Lanser, Susan Sniader. “Bluestocking Sapphism and the Economies of Desire”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 257-75.
Staves, Susan. “Church of England Clergy and Women Writers”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 81-103.
Kelly, Gary. “Clara Reeve, Provincial Bluestocking: From the Old Whigs to the Modern Liberal State”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 105-25.
Schellenberg, Betty. “Connecting the Dots: Plotting and Reading the (Woman) Writer’s Career”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Quebec City, QC.
Child, Elizabeth. “Elizabeth Montagu, Bluestocking Businesswoman”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 153-73.
Pohl, Nicole, and Betty Schellenberg. “Introduction: A Bluestocking Historiography”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 1-19.
Schellenberg, Betty. “Manuscript Culture and Women as Patrons of Samuel Johnson”. Johnson at 300. A Houghton Library Symposium, Harvard University.
Schellenberg, Betty. “Remembering Beyond the Great Forgetting”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Saskatoon, SK.
Schellenberg, Betty. “Sarah Robinson Scott and the Republic of Letters”. Women in the Republic of Letters Conference, Saskatoon, SK.
Schellenberg, Betty. “The Meaning of Correspondence in an Age of Print”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Conference, Winnipeg, MB.
Major, Emma. “The Politics of Sociability: Public Dimensions of the Bluestocking Millennium”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 175-92.
Schellenberg, Betty. The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Rizzo, Betty. “Two Versions of Community: Montagu and Scott”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 193-14.