Gary Kelly

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...

It represents the erotic gothic in Gary Kelly 's 6-volume Pickering and Chatto collection Varieties of Female Gothic.

Charoba, offered as a specimen of romance, purports to be the translation of an Arabian tale.Gary Kelly notes in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography how The Progress of Romance, which...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.