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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Connections Author name Excerpt
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
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)...
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
She produced a Highland travel journal which her aunt showed to people and which was then published in a magazine, and...
Textual Production Elizabeth Hamilton
It was published by the next month,
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
n. ser. 17: 241
with her name (as Eliza Hamilton). Elizabeth Benger later wrote (perhaps protectively) that EH was only reluctantly persuaded to put her name on...
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Elizabeth Benger published her Memoirs of EH , including much of Hamilton's previously unpublished work, by May 1818.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...
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...
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
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...
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.
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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
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 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...
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...

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