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Jan Fergus
Standard Name: Fergus, Jan
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Her mother was Mary (Long). This information was privately supplied by scholar Jan Fergus
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | It was EOB
's uncle by marriage Sir David Ogilvy
who introduced her to Mary Champion de Crespigny
, dedicatee of The Female Geniad. This information was privately supplied by scholar Jan Fergus
. |
Literary responses | Ann Masterman Skinn | The Critical Review dismissed the novel as nauseous and insipid, and the heroine as so inconsistent as to be incredible; its only reason for noticing it at all was to deter AMS
from further publication... |
Publishing | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | |
Publishing | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | For printing ConstanceHookham
used the Logographic Press
(an experimental firm which aimed to speed printing by having certain common words precast as units of type instead of having to be assembled from individual letters)... |
Publishing | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | |
Reception | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | LMH
tells a romantic story in her memoirs about this series of novels. A lady (still alive in 1824, resident near Windsor) admired them so warmly that she vainly badgered the kind, generous, worthy... |
Textual Features | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | The disparate novels in the group recently and convincingly ascribed to LMH
by scholar Jan Fergus
have in common a strong element of attention to gender issues. The plots blend the unusually convincing with the... |
Textual Production | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | Jan Fergus
notes that the title mention of a dog may have raised false expectations of satire through a naive observer in the manner of Francis Coventry
's The History of Pompey the Little; or... |
Textual Production | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | A series of novels—beginning with Constance, 1785 (published as by a young lady when the future EKM
was about thirteen), and continuing, with each title linked backwards to others in the series, to The... |
Textual Production | Mary Robinson | |
Textual Production | Jane Austen | JA
laid aside her fragmentary, unfinished novel The Watsons. Critic Jan Fergus
thinks that she probably never went back to it after Anne Lefroy
's death. Biographer Claire Tomalin
thinks it was her father |
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