Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses.
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Literary responses | Amelia Opie | This novel was an instantaneous success. Of the second edition the Critical Review (of May 1802) wrote: Seldom have we met with any combination of incidents, real or imaginary, which possessed more of the deeply... |
Literary responses | Amelia Opie | |
Textual Production | Andrea Levy | Texts that she mentions using for research include Mary Prince
's autobiography, Lady Nugent
's journal, Matthew Lewis
's Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies, Mary Seacole
's Wonderful... |
Textual Production | Harriet Lee | HL
aimed to be a moral writer. She later told Hester Piozzi she had not read Lewis
's The Monk, since I am no wilful reader of wicked books. Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses. 2: 410 n7 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sophia King | The dutiful daughters thank their father for his care of their education. Pieces by the two sisters mostly alternate. SK
claims in a note that she composed her De Clifford's Ghost at the age of... |
Literary responses | Isabella Kelly | The Critical pronounced that—though the characters were trite and IK
would do better to stop imitating Matthew Lewis
—this novel was not the trash the reviewer had expected, but had a genuine secret to reveal... |
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... |
Literary responses | Isabella Kelly | This novel was praised by the British Critic as entitled to no mean place among the better productions of this description. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Kelly | |
Literary responses | Isabella Kelly | The Critical felt that IK
had disarmed reviewers by the humility of her preface. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2d ser. 36 (1802): 117 |
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... |
Reception | Isabella Kelly | It seems that the implicit link between Kelly and Lewis
was noticed, for newspaper advertisements later this year announced that the two were collaborating on a novel—which made Lewis back off from their literary relationship... |
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... |
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