Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
n. ser. 21: 176
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hamilton | Alexander Hamilton
in the Monthly Review felt it necessary to warn its readers that these letters were really a novel. It also judged the Indian sections far less well done than the English ones. |
| Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Though the first review to appear, in the Monthly Repository, expressed admiration (and some anti-war feeling), McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 476 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | In September 1847, critic George Gilfillan
followed his treatment of the still very popular and critically distinguished Felicia Hemans
in his series on Female Authors in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine with a piece on EBB
... |
| Literary responses | Harriet Lee | The Critical Review (which thought the first volume of Canterbury Tales resembled the work of Marmontel
, but happily without his profligate principles) was enthusiastic: We expect the second volume with impatience, as we have... |
| Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian won for AR
the accolade of praise from Thomas James Matthias
, scholar, editor, and librarian at Buckingham Palace, who invoked the shade of Ariosto
to honour her in the same place... |
| Literary responses | Anne Marsh | The Spectator, in praising Norman's Bridge, said that the only work to touch it was William Godwin
's Caleb Williams. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965. |
| Literary responses | Ann Taylor Gilbert | The Critical Review gave the second volume five words: Very good in their way. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 3d ser. 6 (1805): 333 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Eliza Fenwick | Charlotte Smith
knew of this work-in-progress on 26 July 1800, when she told Mary Hays
how she wished she could help EF
with money or moral support. On 31 October 1801 Hays noted that Thomas Underwood |
| Occupation | Fanny Holcroft | Lady Mountcashel as a girl had had Mary Wollstonecraft
as her governess; Wollstonecraft too had been dismissed from this post, though she had preserved her friendship with her pupil Margaret, later Lady Mountcashel. FH
's... |
| Occupation | Mary Shelley | MS
supported herself and Percy Florence through her writing—novels and journalism—and editing. He, through her earnings, was educated at Harrow School
and Cambridge University
. She also supported her aging father
until his death in 1836. Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1995. 52-4 Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, 1997, pp. 9-45. 10-11 |
| Other Life Event | Mary Wollstonecraft | Godwin
's hastily-written Memoirs of MW
, following his own principle of total frankness about all he knew, irreparably (for the time being) damaged her reputation. Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992. 289-90 |
| politics | Maria Riddell | In June 1795 (the year after reading Godwin
's Political Justice) MR
became involved in a case in which Irish tinkers, threatened with being pressed as vagrants into the British Navy
, had resisted... |
| politics | Amelia Opie | Amelia Alderson (later AO
) attended the treason trials at the Old Bailey of Horne Tooke
and Thomas Holcroft
(friends of her family) and other would-be reformers; it was here that she got to know... |
| Publishing | Mary Shelley | In 1823 William Godwin
(inspired by a successful dramatisation of his daughter's novel, playing at the Lyceum Theatre
in London as Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein) arranged a second edition for MS
's... |
| Publishing | Mary Shelley | MS
wrote an enthusiastic and knowledgeable review of her father
's novel Cloudesley (for Blackwood's). Clemit, Patricia. “Mary Shelley and William Godwin: a literary-political partnership, 1823-1836”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, 1999, pp. 285-95. 294n17 |
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