Sarah, Lady Pennington,. An Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to her Absent Daughters. W. Bristow and C. Ethrington.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah, Lady Pennington | She advises about relations with servants, about prompt payment of bills, and other aspects of running a complicated household. She says there will always be vacant Hours to fill up with reading, Sarah, Lady Pennington,. An Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to her Absent Daughters. W. Bristow and C. Ethrington. 38 |
Textual Production | Anna Seward | AS
penned a poem she called Eyam, reminiscent of Goldsmith
's The Deserted Village, about a visit back to her birthplace. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books. 99-100 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | CL
had probably begun this play immediately after the appearance of her novel Henrietta, 1759, which it reworks. Indeed, the play bore the same title as the novel when it was seen in manuscript... |
Textual Production | Violet Fane | Under the initial V, VF
contributed a series of satirical sketches on the English upper classes to Edmund Yates
's The World. They were collected as The Edwin and Angelina Papers (1878). The... |
Textual Production | Phebe Gibbes | PG
issued a third novel this same year, The Fruitless Repentance; or, The History of Miss Kitty Le Fever (reprinted in facsimile by Garland
in 1974). Gibbes, Phebe. “Introduction”. Hartly House, Calcutta, edited by Michael J. Franklin, Oxford University Press, p. xi - lvii. xiv n16 |
Textual Production | Frances Brooke | The full title was Elements of the History of England from the Invasion of the Romans to the Reign of George II; it bore her name. The Critical Review dealt with the earlier volumes... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Griffith | Besides a splendid frontispiece portrait of EG
in the first edition, with her published works around her, the book was further illustrated with plates originating in the magazine. The other contributors were Oliver Goldsmith
(who... |
Textual Production | Medora Gordon Byron | It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press
, with a quotation from Francis Bacon
on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare
, Swift
, Prior
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, Edward Young |
Textual Features | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
Textual Features | Eliza Cook | Her poetic topics strongly reflect her reliance on well-tried promoters of sentiment: death, parting, gypsies, favourite horses and dogs, local feeling for Scotland or Ireland. The collection closes with a section of poems for... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Strutt | The book had coloured illustrations. ES
adopts here a relaxed, informal tone. She pays more attention than formerly to scenery (though she insists that only truly personal responses are interesting), but also to the humdrum... |
Textual Features | Tabitha Tenney | Choice of women writers is fairly generous, with excerpts from Hester Mulso Chapone
, John Aikin
and Anna Letitia Barbauld
(Evenings at Home), Susanna Haswell Rowson
, Elizabeth Carter
, Hester Thrale
,... |
Textual Features | Matilda Betham-Edwards | This man, a French Protestant condemned to the galleys as a heretic, had published authentic memoirs of his harrowing experiences in 1757. Oliver Goldsmith
(who may possibly have met Marteilhe) had translated them pseudonymously into... |
Textual Features | Alethea Lewis | She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone
, who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities... |
Textual Features | Susanna Blamire | It is generally supposed that this poem owes something to Oliver Goldsmith
's The Deserted Village, Kushigian, Nancy, and Stephen C. Behrendt, editors. Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. |