Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Haight, Gordon S.Editor , Yale University Press, 1978.
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Anthologization | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | Gary Kelly
includes a facsimile of this work as an example of Street Gothic in his Varieties of Female Gothic, 2002. |
Anthologization | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | SSW
's The White Cottage of the Valley, published with her name but without a date, has as epigraph some lines by Thomas Fitzgerald
about a caged bird, from his poem Bedlam, from... |
Anthologization | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | The White Pilgrim; or, Castle of Olival, published, with SSW
's name, as translated from the popular French novel, Le Pelerin Blanc (by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt
), no doubt stemmed in actuality from... |
Anthologization | Elizabeth Carter | She occupies volume two in Pickering and Chatto
's series Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-1790, 1999, general editor Gary Kelly
. This volume includes her Epictetus, her two Rambler essays... |
Anthologization | Mary Martha Sherwood | MMS
wrote later, It was a matter of course to me that I was to write, and also a matter of instinct. My head was always busy in inventions, and it was a delight to... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | The term bluestocking very quickly came to imply dismissiveness, if not actual disapproval and contempt. The first to use it pejoratively may well have been, as Gary Kelly
has suggested, those who felt threatened or... |
Literary responses | Amelia Opie | Gary Kelly
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls her work a eulogy, and an example of that Romantic genre, the bereaved spouse's memoir, which, as expected, traced John Opie's creative and professional successes... |
Literary responses | Amelia Opie | AO
's novels, which formed a comparatively minor part of her output, had an impact beyond the rest of her work. Literary historian Gary Kelly
notes that when they were new they commanded among the... |
Literary responses | Mary Hays | One of Jane Austen
's sisters-in-law owned a copy. Some reviewers objected both to content and arrangement. The European Review was not untypical in that although it expressed some admiration it also called for a... |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | George Eliot
considered the title poem exquisite. Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Haight, Gordon S.Editor , Yale University Press, 1978. 1: 72 Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, 2002, pp. 12 - 89; various pages. 39 |
politics | Thomas Holcroft | TH
shaped his radical political opinions during the 1780s. He enthusiastically welcomed the French Revolution. According to Gary Kelly
in his Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry, Holcroft was a materialist who believed that... |
Author summary | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | SSW
began publishing before the end of the eighteenth century. Books for children were her first market niche: both short fiction and instructional works. She later moved into translation and into other kinds of fiction... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
occupies volume one of Pickering and Chatto
's Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-1790 (general editor Gary Kelly
, published in 1999), with the Essay on Shakespear, the published dialogues of... |
Publishing | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | She wrote it while a member of the Marquess of Abercorn
''s household, where she read it aloud in the evenings to less than informed criticism. As before, she and Phillips
could not agree on... |
Publishing | Jane Porter | The preface is dated in December 1809 at Long Ditton in Surrey—a country retirement which, she said, turned her thoughts back to childhood memories. This was one inspiration for the book, and another was... |
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