The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
William Hamilton Maxwell
Standard Name: Maxwell, William Hamilton
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Eliza Dunlop | ED
contributed several inset poems to her cousin William Hamilton Maxwell
's anonymous historical novel The Dark Lady of Doona, set on the west coast of Ireland at the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Literary responses | Harriett Jay | Response to the novel was mixed. The Academy criticized it as heavily derivative of William Hamilton Maxwell
's Wild Sports of the West and (oddly) from Sydney Morgan
's strongly pro-Irish The Wild Irish Girl... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Dunlop | The writer William Hamilton Maxwell
was ED
's cousin, older than her by five years. His second name was his mother's birth name. He published his first novel, O'Hara, or, 1798, in 1825, and... |
Timeline
13 December 1838: The Australian printed the best-known poem...
Writing climate item
13 December 1838
The Australian printed the best-known poem by the Irish-born Australian poet Eliza Dunlop
: The Aboriginal Mother, whose subject was suggested by the terrible massacre at Myall Creek that same year.
Texts
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