Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Shelley | MS
turned down a marriage proposal from actor-manager John Payne
, a friend of Washington Irving
. Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988. xviii |
Friends, Associates | Frances Trollope | While in Paris, they were invited to spend time at the country estate La Grange, owned by General Lafayette
, who had fought during the French Revolution. Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979. 32-5 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | MS
also met the leading women writers of her later years: Jane Porter
, Catherine Gore
, Caroline Norton
, and LEL
. She was friendly, too, with Thomas Moore
, Prosper Mérimée
, Washington Irving |
Literary responses | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | Though Sara Josepha Hale
, author of Woman's Record, called Houstoun a lively, fluent writer, Hale, Sarah Josepha. Woman’s Record. Harper and Brothers, 1855. 845 |
Occupation | Fanny Kemble | FK
made her Washington debut, playing to an audience that included John Quincy Adams
and Washington Irving
. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000. 59 |
Performance of text | Susanna Centlivre | It was published the following month, ascribed to the Author of The Gamester, Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot, 3 vols. 1 (no. 1): 4 |
Publishing | Juliana Horatia Ewing | She had met Caldecott
in June 1879, when she already warmly admired his illustrations for works by Washington Irving
. She specifically asked him for a picture of a fair-haired boy riding a red-haired pony... |
Reception | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | A measure of her success as a writer is the fact that in 1834 CMS
was one of only two women (the other was Martha Washington
) chosen for inclusion in the National Portrait Gallery... |
Reception | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village is often said to have inaugurated its genre of small-scale, local-colour sketch writing, but (apart from Washington Irving
's Geoffrey Crayon's Sketch Book, 1819) it owes an obvious debt to the work... |
Textual Features | Grace Aguilar | GA
's representation of Jews and Jewish history was profoundly influenced by novelists, pre-eminently Walter Scott
, and by historians including Americans Washington Irving
and William H. Prescott
. Ragussis, Michael. Figures of Conversion: "The Jewish Question" and English National Identity. Duke University Press, 1995. 160 |
Textual Production | Isabel Hill | IH
's other translations are Chateaubriand
's The Last of the Abencerages (included, with her name, in the Standard Novels edition of Washington Irving
's Tales of the Alhambra, 1835); the same author's Sketches... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Anne Jevons | She includes a few poems on literary subjects: sonnets on the works of John Milton
and William Cowper
(as edited by Robert Southey
), a sonnet about reading her own youthful diary, and another on... |
Travel | Anna Brownell Jameson | Before leaving New York for Toronto, ABJ
met Washington Irving
and John Jacob Astor
. Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967. 107 |
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