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, pp. 105-25.
120 and n35
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Textual Production | Clara Reeve | Attention has been drawn to this text, now very rare, by Gary Kelly
. A copy survives at the University of Alberta
. 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, pp. 105-25. 120 and n35 |
Textual Production | Clara Reeve | This work represents the genre of enlightenment gothic in Gary Kelly
's 6-volume Pickering and Chatto
edited collection Varieties of Female Gothic, 2001. Kelly, Gary, editor. Varieties of Female Gothic. Pickering and Chatto. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Sophia Lee | The Recess is dedicated to Sir John Eliot, Elliot, or Elliott
, a Scottish physician who was successful and popular in London. (His wife, Grace, née Dalrymple
, had left him for another man, and... |
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... |
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... |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | George Eliot
considered the title poem exquisite. Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 1: 72 Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, pp. 12 - 89; various pages. 39 |
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... |
Textual Production | Mary Hays | Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women by MH
was anonymously published. Scholars disagree: Gina Luria
(following William Thompson
and Anna Wheeler
) assigns this to MH
; Gary Kelly
doubts... |
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