Anna Aikin (later ALB
) joined with her brother John
in Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose, in which her seven contributions and his four were not distinguished by name.
The tale of Sir Bertrand (part...
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...
Publishing
Hester Mulso Chapone
In the year of her Letter to a New-Married Lady, HMC
said she published in order to appease that uneasy sense of helplessness and insignificancy in society, which has often depressed and afflicted me...
Publishing
Charlotte Dacre
It represents the erotic gothic in Gary Kelly
's 6-volume Pickering and Chatto
collection Varieties of Female Gothic.
Textual Production
Mary Hays
Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women by MH
was anonymously published.
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...
Textual Production
Felicia Hemans
Gary Kelly
speculates that Felicia Browne may have been the translator (signing F. B.) of Italian patriot and political exile Ugo Foscolo
's autobiographical novel Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis in 1812.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, pp. 12 - 89; various pages.
21
A...
Textual Features
Felicia Hemans
This poem, in the view of Gary Kelly
, articulates a liberal reformist programme that, by suggesting that the acquisition and exhibition of the marbles by Britain would place the artistic expression of Athenian republican...
Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press.
1: 72
Critic Gary Kelly
argues that this first-person narrative should be considered a dramatic monologue.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, pp. 12 - 89; various pages.
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Publishing
Felicia Hemans
In 1914 Oxford University Press
published FH
's collected works. After this her works went out of print until the 1970s. Several Garland
reprints with introductions by Donald H. Reiman
have appeared, as have editions...
Reception
Felicia Hemans
FH
was slow to register on the radar of recuperative feminist critics. Cora Kaplan
was an early exception in her anthology Salt and Bitter and Good, 1975.Margaret Homans
in her early attempt to...
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...
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...
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...
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Texts
Kelly, Gary, editor. Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-1790. Pickering and Chatto, 1999.
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.
Kelly, Gary, and Matt Ogle. “Converging Research and Teaching: StreetPrint—A Digital Archive of Street Literature”. COCH/COSH, Congress 2003, Halifax, NS.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary; and, The Wrongs of Woman, edited by Gary Kelly, Oxford University Press, 1980, p. vii - xxviii.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, 2002, pp. 12 - 89; various pages.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. Mary; and, The Wrongs of Woman. Editor Kelly, Gary, Oxford University Press, 1980.
Kelly, Gary. Oral Communication with Isobel Grundy.
Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan, 1992.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Varieties of Female Gothic. Pickering and Chatto, 2002.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.