Gary Kelly

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

George Eliot considered the title poem exquisite. Critic Gary Kelly argues that this first-person narrative should be considered a dramatic monologue.

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...