Lloyd, Nicola. “Mary Julia Young. A Biographical and Bibliographical Study”. Romantic Textualities, No. 18.
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Textual Features | Mary Julia Young | The title-page quotes Le Sage
, in French, avowing that he intended to depict people as they are, but not real individuals (a quotation that might work in reverse, encouraging readers to expect recognisable portraits)... |
Textual Production | Mary Julia Young | Young mentions the restraint laid on my pen by Personages who fear'd to be mention'd in those memoirs. Lloyd, Nicola. “Mary Julia Young. A Biographical and Bibliographical Study”. Romantic Textualities, No. 18. letter 1 |
Publishing | Harriette Wilson | Newspapers advertised the first instalment of HW
's Memoirs as due next day—but the promised contents (a list of names headed by the king
and three dukes) was an obvious invitation to buy out. Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber. 200 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriette Wilson | While at Brighton HW
made a proposition by letter to the Prince of Wales
(if you pity me, and believe you could make me in love with you, write to me) Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber. 38 |
Reception | Harriette Wilson | Frances Wilson
entitles Panic at the Palace her chapter about George IV
's outrage at the things said about his mistress Lady Conyngham
; it chronicles attempts to extradite HW
from Paris, in which... |
Publishing | Helen Maria Williams | The Poems were in two volumes, with HMW
's name in full, published by Rivington and Marshall
, with an engraved frontispiece drawn by Maria Cosway
. Subscribers included the Prince of Wales
(whose name... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eglinton Wallace | In the play Lord Crotchet, who is a scholar of ancient Rome and thinks it superior to the modern world, plans a day of saturnalia, when servants change places with their masters. This is presented... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Jane Vardill | Vardill continued to write for public occasions: on the death of Princess Charlotte
(The Bride's Dirge, December 1817) and on those of George III
and the Duke of Kent
(The Eldest King... |
Dedications | Anna Jane Vardill | The full title was Poems and Translations from the Minor Greek Poets and Others: written chiefly between the ages of ten and sixteen. The volume was supplied with two title-pages, one conventionally printed and... |
Literary responses | Anna Jane Vardill | This volume was reviewed in the European Magazine in August by Joseph Moser
, who was at the time its leading poetry contributor. De Montluzin, Emily Lorraine. Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine, 1782-1826. http://bsuva.org/bsuva/euromag/. |
Friends, Associates | Melesina Trench | Wherever she went on her first European trip she had access to exclusive circles of society. She met Nelson
and his mistress, Emma, Lady Hamilton
, the writer Antoine de Rivarol
, Napoleon's brother Lucien Bonaparte |
politics | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | He held office under the Whigs, played a role in the trial of Warren Hastings
, became an intimate friend of the Prince of Wales
, and was a vital player (with Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire |
Occupation | Mary Robinson | MR
caught the eye of the young Prince of Wales
as she acted Perdita in a royal command performance of Shakespeare
's The Winter's Tale; she was twenty-two (or twenty-three) to his seventeen. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen. xii Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen. 101 Nathan, Alix. “Mistaken or Misled? Mary Robinson’s Birth Date”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 9 , No. 1, pp. 139-42. 139 |
Publishing | Mary Robinson | MR
published the first volume of a new collection of Poems: the subscribers' list was headed by the Prince of Wales
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2nd ser. 2 (1791): 309 Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, pp. 19-64. 37 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | MR
later separated from Thomas after becoming mistress to the Prince of Wales
. |
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