Percy, Joan. “An Unrecognized Novelist: Frances Jacson (1754-1842)”. British Library Journal, Vol.
23
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 81-97. 96n5
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Family and Intimate relationships | Teresia Constantia Phillips | She had a couple of desultory affairs, one with a bankrupt surgeon and another with Colonel Vassall
, a Boston merchant whom she had met abroad. She represents both these relationships as dominated by her... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Late in life EOB
ran a kind of salon which was remarkable for being bohemian and operating on a shoestring: with tea rather than wine (unlike the lavish salons of contemporary society hostesses like Lady Holland |
Literary responses | Amelia Opie | This novel was an instantaneous success. Of the second edition the Critical Review (of May 1802) wrote: Seldom have we met with any combination of incidents, real or imaginary, which possessed more of the deeply... |
Literary responses | Frances Jacson | Maria Edgeworth
read this novel on its appearance (firmly preferring it to Jane Austen's Emma), and two years later mentioned it as the title defining FJ
's achievement. Percy, Joan. “An Unrecognized Novelist: Frances Jacson (1754-1842)”. British Library Journal, Vol. 23 , No. 1, 1997, pp. 81-97. 96n5 |
Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | Elizabeth, Lady Holland
, remarked that this was said to be better than LCB
's other books, but suggested that this was not much of a recommendation. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Lady Caroline Lamb | Like her birth family, LCL
strongly supported a Whig and reformist political agenda. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 85 qtd. in Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 86 |
Reception | Mary Russell Mitford | She contacted several people (including the novelist Lady Dacre
and the Whig hostess and diarist Lady Holland
) for support in her application, which was fuelled by the examples of the pensions granted to Sydney Morgan |
Textual Features | Lady Caroline Lamb | The printed selection begins with girlhood letters to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
's elder daughter. It goes on to include correspondence with friends and publishers, analyses of feelings and comments on the experience of pregnancy... |
Textual Features | Lady Caroline Lamb | Using as a foundation her affair with Byron
(not its actual events but its emotional impact), LCL
tells a melodramatic, gothic tale in rhapsodic, overblown style. Critic Paul Douglass
thinks the fourteen lyrics included in... |
Textual Features | Lady Charlotte Bury | |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | By 1912 VW
had published on Margaret Cavendish
(as Duchess of Newcastle), Ann, Lady Fanshawe
, Elizabeth Carter
, Anna Seward
, Elizabeth, Lady Holland
, Maria Edgeworth
, Lady Hester Stanhope
, theBrontë |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Melesina Trench | Particular sketches include an allegory sent to Mary Leadbeater entitled The Birth of Calumny Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Second edition, revised, Parker and Bourn, 1862. 162-4 |
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