Gary Kelly

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...

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...

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...

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...

Attention has been drawn to this text, now very rare, by Gary Kelly . A copy survives at the University of Alberta .

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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.