Moira Ferguson

Standard Name: Ferguson, Moira

Connections

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Birth	Mary Collier	MC was born in Sussex, probably at Lodsworth. Though both the Feminist Companion and critic Moira Ferguson give her a birth-date of 1679, Richard Greene identified her in the Dictionary of National Biography: Missing...
Birth	Anne Hart Gilbert	Anne Hart (later AHG ) was born in Antigua, the eldest daughter in a large family. Editor Moira Ferguson makes Anne the younger, reversing her and Elizabeth's birth dates, but Elizabeth says that Anne...
Family and Intimate relationships	Margaret Tyler	Her family is untraced. Scholar Moira Ferguson has suggested that she might have altered her name for purposes of concealment, and might in fact have been Margaret Tyrrell . Tyler, Margaret. “Introductory Note”. Margaret Tyler, edited by Kathryn Coad, Scolar Press; Ashgate, 1996, p. ix - xi. ix The Oxford Dictionary of National...
Literary responses	Janet Little	JL has received rather less critical attention than many of the English proletarian poets of her century and arguably far less than she deserves. Critic Moira Ferguson rather oddly judges her to have failed in...
Literary responses	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Literary admirers of the hymns included Hannah More , Anna Seward , and Elizabeth Carter , who found some passages amazingly sublime. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 193 The innumerable children who loved and later remembered them included Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
Literary responses	Anne Hart Gilbert	Moira Ferguson finds in this text a strong sense of identification with African Caribbean men, women, and children and a recognition of inequities. Ferguson, Moira, editor. The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals. University of Nebraska Press, 1993. 28 Sandra Pouchet Paquet argues that its importance lies in its restoration...
Literary Setting	Sophia Lee	Matilda's narrative (addressed to a female friend) opens and dominates the novel. At first she and Ellinor believe that Mrs Marlow, the beautiful, elegant, and femininely helpless woman who brings them up, is their mother...
Author summary	Anne Hart Gilbert	AHG , a woman of colour, is remarkable not only for the leadership role she took in her Caribbean community during the early nineteenth century, but also for her writings. These (unpublished during her lifetime)...
Publishing	Anne Hart Gilbert	In this collaborative book, John Gilbert wrote most of the first 26 pages and AHG the next 18 pages. The Wesleyan missionary William Box also had a hand in the story, which was continued past...
Textual Features	Harriet Martineau	Set in British Guiana, this book attacks chattel slavery, the ownership of human beings as property, through its effect on the family because of the prohibition of marriage among slaves. One male character refuses...
Textual Features	Mary Prince	As it stands, her text is compatible both with heartfelt outpouring and with rhetorical shaping for maximum impact on readers. The style is stark and emphatic: there was no end to my toils—no end to...
Textual Production	Frances Power Cobbe	Once the campaign against vivisection became FPC 's ruling passion, much of her writing energies were consumed by it. She herself characterized it as the end of her career as a journalist, owing in part...
Textual Production	Margaret Tyler	The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography suggests that MT may have translated this material for household entertainment as part of her duties in her post of waiting-woman to a noble family. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. She herself says she...
Textual Production	Anne Hart Gilbert	AHG wrote a letter which scholar Moira Ferguson has called her History of Methodism. Ferguson, Moira, editor. The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals. University of Nebraska Press, 1993. 55, 57-75

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Texts

Ferguson, Moira. Animal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900: Patriots, Nation, and Empire. University of Michigan Press, 1998.

Ferguson, Moira. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender. State University of New York Press, 1995.

Ferguson, Moira, editor. First Feminists: British Women Writers 1578-1799. Indiana University Press, 1985.

Ferguson, Moira. “Hannah Kilham: Gender, the Gambia, and the Politics of Language”. Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture, 1780-1834, edited by Alan Richardson and Sonia Hofkosh, Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 114-48.

Ferguson, Moira et al. “Introduction”. The Thresher’s Labour and The Woman’s Labour, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1985, p. iii - xii.

Alexander, Ziggi et al. “Introduction; Supplement; Appendices”. The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, edited by Moira Ferguson, Pandora, 1987, pp. 1-41.

Ferguson, Moira, and Janet Todd. Mary Wollstonecraft. Twayne, 1984.

Ferguson, Moira. Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834. Routledge, 1992.

Ferguson, Moira, editor. The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals. University of Nebraska Press, 1993.

Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Editor Ferguson, Moira, Pandora, 1987.

Ferguson, Moira. “The Unpublished Poems of Ann Yearsley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.

, No. 1, pp. 13-46.