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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Mary Hays | Charles Lamb
's report that MH
composed a piece of poetry for the tomb of her former mentor William Godwin
was a fantasy, part of a letter written in 1815 which presents events in a... |
| Reception | Anna Letitia Barbauld | This work was controversial. William Enfield
in the Monthly Review praised it and endorsed its opinions. |
| Textual Features | Mary Hays | MH
's preface explains her intention of examining the power of the passions in action, on the model of Godwin
's Caleb Williams. She also compliments Ann Radcliffe
. She defends the worth of... |
| Textual Features | Anna Margaretta Larpent | This later diary, generally written daily at any odd moment, provides indexing of special events which reveals AML
's methodical character. Occasional months are missing here and there. The diarist offers penetrating comment on a... |
| Textual Features | Marjorie Bowen | Her Mary Wollstonecraft is a warm-hearted, passionate woman, deserving of praise for surviving her extraordinarily difficult childhood, and for her commitment to making a decent life for herself amid chaotic circumstances. To Bowen, Wollstonecraft's relationship... |
| Textual Features | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes Johnson
's Rambler. This novel opens with fashionable and effective abruptness: What can I do? These words, spoken in a low tone, and followed by a heart rending sigh, broke on... |
| Textual Features | Amelia Opie | Adeline's mother, Mrs Mowbray, is a widowed spoiled child of rich parents. qtd. in Opie, Amelia. Adeline Mowbray. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999. 8 Opie, Amelia. Adeline Mowbray. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999. 9 |
| Textual Features | Isabella Kelly | The title positions the novel in a line running from Robert Bage
's Man As He Is, 1792, and William Godwin
's Caleb Williams; or, Things as They Are, 1794, to Catherine Gore |
| Textual Features | Lady Louisa Stuart | |
| Textual Production | Mary Lamb | In fact Mary had written the versions of all the comedies and histories, while Charles
did the tragedies only. The suppression of her name was not (as the Feminist Companion suggests) due to an error... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Smith | CS
wrote the Prologue for William Godwin
's unsuccessful tragedy, Antonio, published in 1800. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998. 288 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | This too was written long before publication: in 1801, HMB
said in a preface dated 1819, with the aim of combating the ideas of Godwin
and other Jacobins, and the horrors of the French Revolution... |
| Textual Production | Mary Shelley | Pickering and Chatto
have included MS
in The Pickering Masters. Their eight volumes of her Novels and Selected Works, edited by Nora Crook
with Patricia Clemit
and others, 1996, includes her travel writing... |
| Textual Production | Mary Shelley | MS
drafted her second, short novel, Mathilda, about a troubled father-daughter relationship, which has often been traced to her own relations with her father
. Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, 1997, pp. 9-45. 44 |
| Textual Production | Mary Shelley | MS
wrote a brief account of her still-living father
to accompany the Bentley's Standard Novels edition of his Caleb Williams. Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 3, 1998, pp. 303-22. 303 Clemit, Patricia. “Mary Shelley and William Godwin: a literary-political partnership, 1823-1836”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, 1999, pp. 285-95. 291 Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, 1999, pp. 413-24. 415 |
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