Waters, Mary A. British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Laetitia Pilkington | Her youngest son, Jack (John Carteret Pilkington
), also came back to her for support, with tales of mistreatment from their father. Jack was alleged by Isaac Reed
to have told Theophilus Cibber
(who... |
Friends, Associates | Ann Radcliffe | While staying with her uncle Thomas Bentley at Chelsea, Ann Ward (later AR
) met a number of influential men, most of them with Dissenting connections: Joseph Banks
, George Fordyce
, Ralph Griffiths
,... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Jones | MJ
corresponded with Charlotte Lennox
and with publisher Ralph Griffiths
and his wife Isabella
. Her friendship was valued by literary men like Samuel Johnson
, Joseph Spence
, Thomas Warton
, and apparently Bonnell Thornton |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Moody | EM
's early literary friends included Edward Lovibond
, a Surrey poet who (she says in her verse collection) trained her in poetry, George Hardinge
, a distinguished lawyer and also a writer, Waters, Mary A. British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 142 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Hardinge |
Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | In the Monthly Review, Ralph Griffiths
passed a judgement which was inflected against Betsy Thoughtless by issues of gender. He guessed that the author was female because of the novel's attention to matters of... |
Literary responses | Margaret Holford | The Critical Review thought the manners of the East were well caught here (though not its language) and that the young author showed promise of improvement. Arthur Aikin
and Ralph Griffiths
in the Monthly wrote... |
Literary responses | Mary Jones | Catherine Talbot
found Holt Waters and A Letter to Doctor Pitt indelicate and was surprised that Carter
liked MJ
's poetry. Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013. 183 |
Occupation | Mary Collyer | MC
joined forces with her husband to work as a bookseller (that is publisher) and owner-manager of a circulating library. They seem to have had a close working relationship with Ralph Griffiths
, publisher... |
Occupation | Oliver Goldsmith | After working at medicine and teaching, OG
became a hack or low-level professional writer by joining the ranks of the freelances who wrote for Ralph Griffiths
on the Monthly Review. His works of high... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Moody | EM
sent the Monthly editor, Ralph Griffiths
, a satirical ballad, The Distemper'd Muse, A Poem Address'd to F[ulke] G[reville]
Esq., after Greville had vilified the magazine in print. Rizzo, Betty. “’Downing Everybody’: Johnson and the Grevilles”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol. 12 , AMS Press, 2001, pp. 17-46. 34-5 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Moody | There is an unexplained gap in her reviewing between August 1791 and January 1800. Four of her reviews were co-authored: with Ralph Griffiths
, his son George
, or her husband
. Waters, Mary A. British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 141 and n32, 143 |
Textual Production | Mary Collyer | Its publishers, Wilson and Durham
, were business associates of the Collyers. A second edition followed in 1770, and a Garland
facsimile in 1974. Grossman, Joyce. “Social Protest and the Mid-Century Novel: Mary Collyers The History of Betty BarnesEighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol. 1 , 2001, pp. 165-84. 169, 165n1 |
Textual Production | Mary Jones | MJ
wrote to thank Ralph Griffiths
of the Monthly Review for inviting her to participate in some literary venture or other, but she declined the invitation. Forster, Antonia. Email about Mary Jones to Isobel Grundy. 25 Apr. 2005. |