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Dedications | Charlotte Dacre | CD
, publishing as Rosa Matilda, dedicated her first novel, Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer, to Monk Lewis
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 210 Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, 1997, pp. 11-36. 35 |
Dedications | Eliza Parsons | EP
moved publishers again, to P. Norbury
of Brentford, for The Valley of St. Gothard, A Novel, dedicated to M. G. Lewis
. The English Novel mistakenly dates the Critical notice of this... |
Education | Linda Villari | During the time she spent at her great-aunt's house in Croydon, LV
's novel suggests she was taught at home by a family governess, a close friend of her mother, identified there as Miss... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Kelly | Her son William Martin Kelly
turned out a disappointment. A recent biographer of Matthew Lewis
discounts stories that William's relationship with his patron was sexual. William, however, appears to have suffered, in typical young-gentleman fashion... |
Fictionalization | Lady Charlotte Bury | Assessments of LCB
's work during her lifetime varied wildly. Sir Walter Scott
quoted her in print; Sydney Morgan
respected her work; but to most people her social identity eclipsed her literary one. Her early... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Charlotte Bury | Another acquaintance of LCB
's from childhood was Matthew Gregory Lewis
, who was a favourite at Inverary Castle during her girlhood, and dedicated his Romantic Tales to her in 1808. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 57 |
Friends, Associates | Lady Charlotte Bury | During her first marriage Lady Charlotte frequently entertained the literary celebrities of her day. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. |
Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | She had already by this date, on a visit to London, met Boswell
, the biographer, and found him a stranger biped than any she knew. MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press, 1975. 63 |
Friends, Associates | Isabella Kelly | Her friends or perhaps patrons included General Henry Seymour Conway
(father of the writer-sculptor Anne Damer
) and his whole family. Kelly, Isabella. A Collection of Poems and Fables. Richardson, 1794. 39-40 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Shelley | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | There follows a fighting critical Dissertation Respecting Patrons and Dedications, which covers the issues of male disrespect for female authors, the tyranny of critics, and over-insistence on moral instruction (with Hannah More
's Coelebs... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Regina Maria Roche | This novel claims relationship with Macpherson
's Ossian through quotations appearing on its title-page and heading its chapters. An element of terror derives from Matthew Gregory Lewis
's notorious The Monk, 1796. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Kelly | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Kelly | This novel opens in Barbados, though IK
offers far less description of the setting than in her novels with British backgrounds. Though the widowed mother of the heroine, Antonia Courtney, is determined that she... |