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Literary responses | Anna Seward | Boswell
responded in the magazine's columns in January 1794, with all guns blazing. He mocked AS
for being elderly, female, provincial, over-praised, and without a classical education. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 206 |
Literary responses | Anna Seward | The European Magazine panned Louisa for French sensibility, while mentioning a favourable review by James Boswell
. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 130n32 Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 58 (1784): 27 |
Education | Evelyn Sharp | ES
received her first education at home, from her sisters Ethel, Bertha, and Mabel (the eldest), who taught the younger ones Bible stories on Sundays. At the same time she imbibed from her brothers the... |
Textual Production | Frances Sheridan | The young James Boswell
heard Frances
and Thomas Sheridan
read her play The Discovery aloud at their home in Windsor, their voices alternating. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, pp. 13-35. 22 |
Literary responses | Frances Sheridan | The novel in its first form was hugely successful: it brought FS
instant fame. Johnson
teasingly expressed doubts about her moral right to make your readers suffer so much. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press. xi |
Textual Production | Frances Sheridan | Boswell
loved the play and was highly flattered by an invitation to supply a prologue. In fact he wrote two successive prologues for it, of which, however, the first was turned down by the author... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Sheridan | FS
used Boswell
's second prologue as the basis for her own, sharpening it a good deal in rewriting. Where he represents her petitioning for her audience's favour, hoping in particular for the support of... |
Travel | Elizabeth Smith | From late 1792 until the following February Elizabeth and her sisters stayed in Bath (where their mother had gone ahead of them to bear her new baby son). Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell. 15, 24 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Taylor | Although Taylor wrote, I am not a good Boswell Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen. 49 Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen. 55 |
Textual Production | Angela Thirkell | Her title comes from an anecdote in Boswell
's The Life of Samuel Johnson, about a man who tried to be a philosopher, but could not manage it because cheerfulness kept breaking in. |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | Through her family EST
was said to have made the acquaintance of many persons of talent of that period. Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia. “Introduction”. The Victim of Fancy, edited by Daniel Cook, Pickering and Chatto, p. xi - xxxi. xii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eglinton Wallace | EW
impressed James Boswell
with her poems, but also disgusted him by what he called her indelicacy, Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Boswell, James. Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1778-1782. Editors Reed, Joseph W. and Frederick A. Pottle, McGraw-Hill. 260 |
Literary responses | Eglinton Wallace | The work was damned on stage on grounds of indecency. Wallace, Eglinton. The Ton, or Follies of Fashion. A Comedy. T, Hookham. iii |
Textual Features | Jane Warton | In this last publication JW
was concerned to disabuse the public of the idea that her younger brother had enjoyed drinking and smoking with low persons in alehouses (it was the allegation of low company... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Williams | James Boswell
found Williams increasingly unfriendly and grumpy (though at his first encounter with her he thought her agreeable and jokey—facetious). Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books. 48 |
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