Angela Escott

Standard Name: Escott, Angela

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Hannah Cowley
It was badly presented, by two of the cast in particular.
Escott, Angela, and Isobel Grundy. Email about supposed quarrel between Hannah Cowley and Hannah More to Isobel Grundy. 24 Oct. 2002.
It had been completed by 1777, but rejected by Thomas Harris of Covent Garden , who then produced Hannah More 's Percy instead. Tragedy...
Publishing Hannah Cowley
In January 1800 or November 1801 HC wrote from her Tiverton retirement to London publisher Richard Phillips about a literary project which sounds more like some new writing than a collected works. Angela Escott thinks...
Reception Hannah Cowley
Early anxiety to secure HC 's reputation was not proof against unthinking dismissal of outmoded women writers. In 1892 the Tiverton historian Frederick John Snell
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
observed that contemporary admiration must have been very flattering to...

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Texts

Escott, Angela, and Isobel Grundy. Email about supposed quarrel between Hannah Cowley and Hannah More to Isobel Grundy.
Escott, Angela. The Celebrated Hannah Cowley. Pickering and Chatto, 2012.
Escott, Angela. “The School of Eloquence and ’Roasted Square Caps’: oratory and pedantry as fair theatrical game?”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
8
, No. 1, 2001, pp. 59-79.