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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Leisure and Society | Anna Letitia Barbauld | There she electrified a social gathering at the house of Dugald Stewart
by her reading of William Taylor
's still unpublished translation of Bürger
's highly emotional Lenore. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 365 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The literary society of ALB
's time was, as biographer Betsy Rodgers notes, small and intimate. Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen. 80 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Taken together, ALB
's various writings for children during her career as educator at Palgrave School
exerted enormous influence on other children's writers, such as Maria Edgeworth
, Sarah Trimmer
, Hannah More
, and... |
Literary responses | Mary Hays | This time most reviews were respectful: the Analytical of course, the Monthly (in which William Taylor
noted that the novel was a cut above the common run, with serious and unusual moral teaching to impart)... |
Instructor | Anne Plumptre | The girls received an education very different from what generally falls to the lot of even well instructed females. Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, p. vii - xxix. vii |
Literary responses | Anna Swanwick | The Athenæum welcomed this translation enthusiastically, proclaiming that it is seldom that we meet with a translator so competent, Athenæum. J. Lection. 990 (1846): 1062 Athenæum. J. Lection. 990 (1846): 1062 |
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