Roberts, Radagunda. Albert, Edward and Laura, and The Hermit of Priestland: Three Legendary Tales. J. Dodsley, 1783.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah More | Others who were said to have proposed to her but been rejected were John Langhorne
, rector of Blagdon in Somerset, and the already elderly Lord Monboddo
. More and Langhorne remained friends, and he... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Whateley Darwall | An important friend to MWD
was the poet William Shenstone
, whose famous ferme ornée, the Leasowes, was only about ten miles away. She may have been a child when she met him. Though... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Medora Gordon Byron | Alexander Pope
is quoted on the title-page (An Essay on Criticism), James Thomson
at the head of the first chapter, John Langhorne
for another chapter. The novel opens in the new style of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs E. M. Foster | The novel parodies Germaine de Staël
's Corinne (which had appeared in French in 1807, in English in 1808). Chapters are supplied with epigraphs: some standard choices like Pope
and Cowper
, but also texts... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare
, Milton
, Pope
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, William Mason
, John Langhorne
, Burns
, Erasmus Darwin
, Edward Young |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Ross | The title-page quotes Langhorne
and the first chapter-heading William Cowper
. Despite its related material, this story is more bland than The Cousins. The hero, Walsingham, appears in England as the ward of Sir... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Radagunda Roberts | RR
supplied an explanation of how she came on the source for her poem Edward and Laura, concluding her remarks with a quotation from Langhorne
. Roberts, Radagunda. Albert, Edward and Laura, and The Hermit of Priestland: Three Legendary Tales. J. Dodsley, 1783. 29 |
Literary responses | Mary Whateley Darwall | John Langhorne
praised the volume in the Monthly Review with particular attention to the abilities of women for the tender and the natural; the reviewer for the Critical Review approved it because of the author's... |
Literary responses | Hannah More | The volume was favourably reviewed in the Monthly Review for September, probably by John Langhorne
. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952. 30 and n22 Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952. 195 |
Literary responses | Hannah More | The Monthly Review for February carried an enthusiastic review by HM
's unsuccessful suitor John Langhorne
. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952. 19 Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 41 (1776): 237 |
Textual Production | Hannah More | The opening performance (with Langhorne
's prologue, and David Garrick
's epilogue) was attended by HM
, her four sisters, and Garrick. He proposed taking the play to Drury Lane, but More declined. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952. 33 |
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