Garside, Peter, James Raven, and Rainer Schöwerling, editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Isabella Kelly
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Standard Name: Kelly, Isabella
Birth Name: Isabella Fordyce
Married Name: Isabella Kelly
Married Name: Isabella Hedgeland
Pseudonym: Catherine Harris
IK
, who published during the very late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century, was a poet and a leading Minerva Press
novelist in gothic and other modes.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Margaret Croker | The work was printed in London by Lloyd and Booth
, and dedicated to the Duchess of York
(who also patronised Anna Maria Bennett
and Isabella Kelly
). |
| Education | Lady Anne Barnard | The education supplied for her and her siblings was particularly haphazard. The girls' governesses were the masculine Sophy or Sophia Johnston
, illegitimate daughter of a laird, and Henrietta Cummings
, who later married James... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | These uncles gave her at least two remarkable aunts by marriage: James's wife was Henrietta (born Cummyng or Cumming)
, whose life was written by Isabella Kelly
, and Alexander's wife was Margaret (later Bland Burges |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | An inspiration for EIS
may have been the writing of her cousin (not, however, a first cousin) the poet and novelist Isabella Kelly
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under Isabella Kelly |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Angela Brazil | While the literature curriculum at AB
's own school seems to have featured all or almost all male writers, her works replicate many favourite motifs from women-authored adult fiction of a century before her. In... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Amelia Opie | AO
makes use throughout her story of an opera by Giovanni Paisiello
, Nina, o sia la pazza per amore (Nina; or, The Girl Run Mad for Love). Madeline repeatedly compares her experience... |
| Leisure and Society | Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny | Her patronage of authors shows up in subscriptions and dedications. She subscribed to works by Mary Deverell
, Isabella Kelly
, Eliza Parsons
, Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
, and no doubt many more. Many of... |
| Occupation | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
became, with George Hoggan
, Honorary Secretary of the new society, which they co-founded. Prominent supporters included the Earl of Shaftesbury
, who became the first president, the Archbishop of York
, politicians James Stansfeld |
| Textual Features | Mary Ann Kelty | Her first subject is Princess Charlotte
. After that MAK
includes Henrietta (Mrs James) Fordyce
, whose life had been written by Isabella Kelly
in 1823, and many writers (including Lady Jane Grey
, Lady Rachel Russell |
| Textual Production | Alison Cockburn | AC
addressed the earliest letter in her later printed collection (which is partly in verse) to Henrietta Cumming or Cummings (later Fordyce)
, who was governess to Lady Anne Barnard
and her sisters, and later... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | This year her cousin Isabella Kelly
issued her fifth novel (having published also a book of poems). Garside, Peter, James Raven, and Rainer Schöwerling, editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000. 1: 788-9 and 825 |
| Textual Production | Annie Tinsley | AT
, as the author of Margaret; or, Prejudice at Home, published a novel with a female first-person protagonist, Women as They Are. By One of Them. The title of Women as They... |
Timeline
14 June 1792
The title of radical novelist Robert Bage
's anonymous Man As He Is, published this day, suggests the unpalatable truths revealed by reformers or satirists; it influenced later titles chosen by William Godwin
and others.