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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... |
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. 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. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
Leisure and Society | Lady Charlotte Bury | Enjoyments of her life during these years included amateur theatricals. Lewis
's epilogue for her to speak at the close of one production makes her the moving spirit of the whole. I made up the... |
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... |
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. 2: 210 Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, pp. 11-36. 35 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Dacre | Zofloya was widely reviewed and its language widely condemned as bombastical—probably reflecting unease at its rampant female sexuality. Shocked reviews included those in the Literary Journal and Monthly Literary Recreations, though the Morning... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Eden | She pays no attention in these letters to historical, geographical, or linguistic facts. On one occasion she mentions her interest in Indian politics, but does not write on it because she could not make them... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs E. M. Foster | Judith, the remaining MEMF
novel of 1800, is attributed to the author of Rebecca, Miriam, and Fitzmorris &c. There was German translation in 1802. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 115 |
Literary responses | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Hester Lynch Piozzi
evidently felt later that these stories were very strong meat for children. She commented in a letter, I think a great Change has been made in Taste of popular Literature—or rather popular... |
Literary responses | Anna Gordon | William Tytler
was followed by many more in his interest in AG
's ballads. His son Alexander Fraser Tytler (Lord Woodhouselee)
, Scott
, Jamieson
, Joseph Ritson
, M. G. Monk Lewis
, Robert Anderson |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Green | M. G. Lewis
is a more complicated case, treated with some nuance. SG
admires The Monk but feels that after that Lewis's real talent was obscured by the baneful influence of German fiction: she agrees... |
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. 39-40 |
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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Isabella Kelly | From the time of her first husband's death, IK
lived in poverty. Henrietta Fordyce
, whose life she wrote, died without finishing the will in which she intended to leave her a bequest. IK
was... |