Gunn, Peter. Vernon Lee: Violet Paget, 1856-1935. Oxford University Press, 1964.
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Education | Vernon Lee | VL
was educated in art and literature by her mother Gunn, Peter. Vernon Lee: Violet Paget, 1856-1935. Oxford University Press, 1964. 48 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | Responses to More's tracts, as to most of her work, reflected their deliberately controversial project. She was widely praised for them among her own class. Someone said she let the poor know that the rich... |
Literary responses | Susanna Haswell Rowson | Early, informal response centred on the play's daring political message, which made SHR
famous or notorious. People spoke of the play as Americans in Algiers or Slaves Released from Algiers. Montgomery, Benilde. “Slaves in Algiers: Susanna Rowsons First American Play”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, Apr. 1991. |
politics | Catherine Fanshawe | |
Publishing | Hannah More | HM
contributed to the penny-halfpenny The Anti-Cobbett or Weekly Patriotic Register, set up under government influence to combat the radical Cobbett
's Weekly Political Register. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952. 203 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. under William Cobbett |
Residence | Celia Moss | Portsea, a waterfront area of was then, as William Cobbett
noted, falling from prosperity after the Napoleonic Wars; it was, indeed, tumbling down. Light, Alison. “Diary”. London Review of Books, Vol. 30 , No. 3, 7 Feb. 2008, pp. 38-9. 39 |
Textual Features | Catherine Fanshawe | Speech of the Member for Odium represents a speech by William Cobbett
(who had been elected in 1832 as member of parliament for Oldham) which first proposes a bill to abolish the sun and... |
Textual Features | Catherine Fanshawe | One of the poems, a delightful Ode which imitates or parodies several well-known passages in various works by Gray
, was written not by CF
but by her friend Mary Berry
, some time before... |
Textual Features | Antonia Fraser | This book is character-driven in AF
's accustomed manner, featuring Whig reformers, Tory reactionaries, and those dubbed revolutionaries like Daniel O'Connell
and William Cobbett
. Its story opens in November 1831 with a famous pronouncement... |
Textual Features | Kathleen E. Innes | Sources from which excerpts are taken include Jane Austen
's letters, William Cobbett
's Rural Rides, painter Anna Lea Merritt
's book A Hamlet in Old Hampshire, Hampshire Days by William Henry Hudson |
Textual Production | Susanna Haswell Rowson | During her work on this novel SHR
was appearing regularly on stage, learning nearly forty different parts, and writing as well three plays, several songs, and an address in verse. Epley, Steven. “Susanna Rowson’s Bible Abridgement and Its Relationship to Her Most Famous Novel”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Boston, MA, 25 Mar. 2004. Parker, Patricia L. Susanna Rowson. Twayne, 1986. 15 |
Textual Production | Kathleen E. Innes | KEI
's Hampshire Pilgrimages: Men and women who have sojourned in Hampshire, presented brief lives of Austen
, Charlotte Mary Yonge
, Florence Nightingale
, Gilbert White
, William Cobbett
, and Joseph Stevens
. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995. 216 |
Textual Production | Hannah More | The year 1816 saw strained political circumstances in Britain, when the end of the Napoleonic wars brought unemployment, rising prices, and (in the opinion of the government) the threat of revolution. HM
was called on... |
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