Watts, Susanna. The Insects in Council. Hurst, Chance; A. Cockshaw.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Helme | Meanwhile in volume one, after the mother and daughter meet in ignorance of their relationship, they exchange somewhat similar histories of being orphaned (or supposedly orphaned), threatened with sexual violence, and undergoing actually violent emotional... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | She dedicated the volume to Jane, Duchess of Gordon
. Gordon was well known as a social and political mover. Her reputation included great beauty, quick repartee, excellent business sense, astute match-making, and also coarse... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Helme | The title-page bears an epigraph from James Thomson
, about the moral struggle of honour and aspiration against ease and luxury. It opens on an old-fashioned couple in their great Yorkshire house, Mr and Mrs... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Watts | The title-page quotes James Thomson
. The preface declares a serious, anxious, and most sincere desire to inculcate respect and tenderness towards all the inferior creatures. Watts, Susanna. The Insects in Council. Hurst, Chance; A. Cockshaw. prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes James Thomson
, and the preface acknowledges the influence of Maria Edgeworth
's The Modern Griselda, 1805. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 366 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare
, Milton
, Pope
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, William Mason
, John Langhorne
, Burns
, Erasmus Darwin
, Edward Young |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Frederick Clark | The title-page of the first volume quotes Mary Robinson
writing on the heart's sufferings, and that of the last volume quotes James Thomson
on the eventual reward for suffering of the noble few. The... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes James Thomson
. Uncharacteristically, BH
offers meticulous description of landscape and works of art. |
Literary responses | Mary Collier | Donna Landry
, in her pioneering book about labouring-class woman poets, attributed to MC
a religious conservatism which she said she would rather believe that Collier was assuming to please her patrons. She nevertheless finds... |
Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | William Enfield
quoted eight lines from Aikin (as Our Poetess) in dedicating his very popular anthology The Speaker, designed for the teaching of elocution, to the head of Warrington Academy
. Her volume... |
Literary responses | Sarah Wentworth Morton | Julie Ellison
, who traces in Ouâbi the influence of male British poets like Thomson
and Goldsmith
, and their sentimental, topographical, masculinist traditions, Ellison, Julie. “Race and Sensibility in the Early Republic: Ann Eliza Bleecker and Sarah Wentworth Morton”. Subjects and Citizens, edited by Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University Press, pp. 57-86. 60 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's reputation persisted for some time after her death. Mary Scott
praised her highly in The Female Advocate, 1774. John Duncombe
(though her posthumous publication was too late for inclusion in his Feminiad... |
Literary Setting | Susanna Blamire | This topographical poem in heroic couplets has many remarkable features: an early description of urban industrial conditions (as the poet opens by turning her back on the town for the village); a catalogue of flowers... |
Occupation | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Among writers who received Lady Hertford's patronage were Elizabeth Singer Rowe
, Elizabeth Boyd
, Elizabeth Carter
, Mary Chandler
, Isaac Watts
, Laurence Eusden
(for whom she set topics of occasional poems), James Thomson |
Reception | Jane Austen |
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