Gary Kelly

US art critic and author Elizabeth Robins Pennell , at the very beginning of her career, published at Boston her Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (which a modern critic, Gary Kelly , singles out as the...

MW structured her book in the popular form of interaction between children and a female pedagogue, here Mrs Mason, a distant relative who takes on the education of two girls out of compassion for the...

Many critics describe this as a travel book: the first one by a Romantic writer to deal with the exotic North. Critic Gary Kelly , however, says that it purports to be a travel...

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...

Gary Kelly includes a facsimile of this work as an example of Street Gothic in his Varieties of Female Gothic, 2002.

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...

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...

Present-day critics like Stuart Curran think highly of CT as a poet. Rhoda Zuk in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography praises her as a feminist and a rational moralist, and argues that the dismissal...

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...

A forty-page chapbook abridgement appeared in 1810 as Rayland Hall; or, the Remarkable Adventures of Orlando Somerville. An Original Story (dated from its frontispiece). This is used by Gary Kelly as an example of Street...

LHS was an indefatigable correspondent. Her papers are to be found at the Connecticut Historical Library , the Connecticut State Library , the Huntington Library , the Schlesinger Library , the New York Historical Society

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...

A fuller title is A Description of Millenium Hall, and the Country Adjacent; Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants, And such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections . . . . The author is described as...

This work represents the genre of enlightenment gothic in Gary Kelly 's 6-volume Pickering and Chatto edited collection Varieties of Female Gothic, 2001. Reeve issued it for the author (that is at her own...

The story is set in late feudal times, and the action carried by male characters, while women are insignificant. Nevertheless several of its themes, like unjust exclusion from succession or inheritance, lend themselves readily to...