Influences on AR
's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley
's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
67
AR
probably helped to produce the fashion for literary quotation...
Textual Features
Anne Plumptre
The letters of Gray are addressed to the young Charles Victor von Bonstetten
, who was a friend of Matthisson. AP
's introductory Advertisement remarks on the enthusiasm of Gray's feeling for Bonstetten, and expresses...
Textual Production
Mary Scott
Anna Seward was eagerly awaiting the appearance of this poem in April.
Seward, Anna. Letters of Anna Seward. Editor Constable, Archibald, Vol.
6 vols.
, A. Constable, 1811, 6 vols.
2: 89
Though it was published at Bath, MS
's previous publisher, Joseph Johnson
, was listed on the title-page as the London...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Jane West
JW
includes some juvenile work in this collection (a poem on Easter and another, written at her mother's request, beginning Thou sweet composer of earth-nurtur'd care, Sweet Poesy!