Plumptre, Anne. Narrative of a Residence in Ireland. Henry Colburn.
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Textual Features | Anne Plumptre | She aims, she says, at accuracy . . . impartiality . . . . fidelity, Plumptre, Anne. Narrative of a Residence in Ireland. Henry Colburn. v-vi |
Textual Features | Helen Maria Williams | This is either the beginning or (as her numbering of later volumes suggests) a prelude to HMW
's Letters from France: an extended series of reports on and analyses of the Revolution, its development... |
Textual Features | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The introductory essay named in the title is a history and an analysis of (in Burke
's phrase a philosophical enquiry into) Dissent
in Britain. Its topics include the loss of status for ministers who... |
Textual Features | Ann Radcliffe | Udolpho opens on the banks of the River Garonne in the year 1584, and moves into the Alps. The text again has poems interspersed. The landscape against which the action unfolds is treated like... |
Textual Features | Mary Leadbeater | This work draws on her diary, and gives a lively picture of local life at Ballitore over nearly sixty years (ending in 1823). She goes into some detail about her family and her early memories... |
Publishing | Emily Frederick Clark | Subscribers included the |
Publishing | Elizabeth Hands | The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed
. It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies... |
Publishing | Mary Leadbeater | ML
published at Dublin herPoems, with a lengthy subscribers' list. The copy at the University of California at Berkeley
has an engraved portrait of Edmund Burke
tipped in. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Mary Shackleton Leadbeater”. Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Alexander Street Press, edited by Stephen C. Behrendt and George Holmes. |
Author summary | Mary Leadbeater | |
politics | Clara Reeve | CR
said that her father was an old Whig, and it appears that her own politics were of the same stamp. She favoured social reforms like improved education for women, and welcomed the early... |
Literary Setting | Rebecca West | The Aubreys, a family of six, are already used to the chaotic lifestyle created by their father, a newspaper editor whom West described in her notes as a reincarnation of Edmund Burke
. Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Afterword”. Cousin Rosamund, Macmillan, pp. 287-95. 288 |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | Walpole
thought CM
's principles sounder and more securely settled than Burke's, while Burke
(coining the term republican Virago) judged her the ablest among his opponents. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 173 Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 74 |
Literary responses | Helen Maria Williams | The book had a good review, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft
, in the Analytical for December 1790. The interesting, unaffected letters which this pleasing writer has now presented to the public Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering. 7: 322 |
Leisure and Society | Sarah Scott | Sarah belonged to a number of libraries, both the circulating and the subscription variety. She seldom missed a new publication either in English or French. She was more critical of what she read than was... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | The pamphlet takes the form of a letter to an unnamed man. Along with the particular example of her husband, it attacks the government of England: but how could this country be anything but the... |
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