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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Elizabeth Hamilton | There has been little attention to EH
as a lesbian, though her friendship with Elizabeth Benger
falls within the broader definitions of this term. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Hamilton | Her friendship with the younger Elizabeth Benger
, her future biographer, was especially close and important to both of them, though for much of its duration they lived far distant from each other, and (apparently)... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Fenwick | Other more or less radical friends of EF
included Thomas Holcroft
, Anne Plumptre
, Elizabeth Benger
, Jane Porter
, Henry Crabb Robinson
, Charles
and Mary Lamb
, and their friend Sarah Stoddart |
Friends, Associates | Jane Porter | The Porters' mother lived a busy social life on limited means, and JP
kept up this tradition. Sir Walter Scott
was an early friend. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 265 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | EIS
says that her early friendship with Jane
and Anna Maria Porter
was inherited, developing from the friendship between their parents, Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. 325-6 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under Anna Maria Porter |
Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | In her memoirs LA
claims to have been acquainted with all the notable literary women of her time. She was a close friend of Joanna Baillie
and Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
. Another important friend and... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
's friendships with women writers (besides Morgan) would surprise anyone not taking her seriously as a writer. When Germaine de Staël
visited England, Lady Caroline was delighted to find her wearing a hat with... |
Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson
recorded in his diary meeting JB
and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
). In his account of this pleasant evening... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | One of those prepared to welcome her was Elizabeth Benger
, who invited the brother and sister to tea, and was keen to get them back again to meet Jane
and Anna Maria Porter
... |
Friends, Associates | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | In London in 1824 she had a socially unsuccessful meeting with Wordsworth
, who was by now a thorough reactionary in politics. He went to some pains to snub her; she refused to notice this... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Selina Bunbury | She drew chiefly on the histories written by George Cavendish
and Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
, and that in Agnes
and Elizabeth Strickland
's Lives of the Queens of England. Bunbury, Selina. The Star of the Court. Grant and Griffith, 1844. vi |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amelia Opie | Both in an Address to the Editor and in a series of explanatory footnotes, AO
positions herself on the one hand as a historian with a proper regard for available evidence, and on the other... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth
, Byron
, Coleridge
, Goethe
, Schiller
—and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | Although HMB
was provoked to write by William Hayley
's unpleasant Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids, 1785, she gives a mixed message. This begins with an epigraph drawn from Elizabeth Hamilton |
Leisure and Society | Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny | Her patronage of authors shows up in subscriptions and dedications. She subscribed to works by Mary Deverell
, Isabella Kelly
, Eliza Parsons
, Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
, and no doubt many more. Many of... |
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