Hawkins, Ann R., and Stephanie Eckroth, editors. Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Vol. 3 vols., Ashgate Publishing Company.
Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
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Standard Name: Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy
Birth Name: Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Pseudonym: E. Benger
Indexed Name: Elizabeth Ogilvie Benger
Used Form: Miss Benger
EOB
, a writer of the Romantic period, remains best-known for her precocious yet astonishingly mature Female Geniad (a poem celebrating women writers); but her other works in poetry, fiction, history, and memoirs show a steady concern with women's history and women's tradition which is almost equally remarkable.
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| Literary responses | Sarah Trimmer | ST
's work made a great impact. She was one of the twenty-four most-reviewed women writers of 1789-90. |
| Literary responses | Anne-Thérèse de Lambert | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
admired this work. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. under Hayley |
| Literary responses | Susannah Dobson | The Critical began its notice by praising the extensive research of the original and by condemning its prolixity, a fault now remedied by SD
, who, it says, has told Petrarch's story in a manner... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Smith | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
paid tribute to Smith's work in her own Klopstock translation, 1812. The old Dictionary of National Biography delivered a gibe which it then apparently retracted: Miss Smith's powers of memory and of... |
| Reception | Mariana Starke | This play was printed just in time for Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
to add a mention of it to The Female Geniad, published by June this year. At this early stage of MS
's career... |
| Textual Features | Susanna Watts | The many pictures in the volume include diagrams of the hold of a slave ship, I & Dash my Dog (a sketch), and prints of Hester Mulso Chapone
, Lady Rachel Russell
(with a copy... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Hamilton | It was published by the next month, Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. n. ser. 17: 241 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Hamilton | This was published at Bath and London. EH
did serious historical research for this book, reading all the Roman history she could find in English and even commissioning translations. There was already women's work... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Hamilton | Elizabeth Benger
published her Memoirs of EH
, including much of Hamilton's previously unpublished work, by May 1818. The full title was Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton, with a Selection from Her Correspondence... |
| Textual Production | Lucy Aikin | LA
memoir of Anna Letitia Barbauld
, in her edition of Barbauld's Works, June 1825, represents a well-planned if largely unsuccessful attempt to establish and preserve Barbauld's reputation after systemic attack by political conservatives... |
| Textual Production | Carola Oman | CO
issued her next historical biography, Elizabeth of Bohemia, about the Scottish-born Electress Palatine who was a great patron and a force in European politics during the seventeenth century. Elizabeth Hamilton
had planned... |
| Textual Production | Jane Porter | JP
published in The Literary MagnetSome Particulars Respecting the Life and Character of the Late Miss Benger, a writer with whom she had enjoyed a long and close friendship. McLean, Thomas. “Jane Porter’s Later Works, 18251846”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 20 , No. 2, pp. 45-62. 52 |
| Textual Production | Anne Steele | This poem stands second in the manuscript volume Poems by Mary Steele in her youth, which is among her papers, now STE 5/5 in the Angus Library
at Regent's Park College, Oxford University
... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Hamilton | Early in her life EHhad recourse to the pen by stealth. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 1: 51-2 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Josepha Hale | SJH
does in the main a fine job in her coverage of British women writers, having something to say even about the extremely obscure. Dorothea Primrose Campbell
, for instance (who was living in poverty... |
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