Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, AMS Press, pp. 283 -5.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Yearsley | John Yearsley's family had formerly been inn-keepers, though he later worked as a farm labourer. Hannah More
may have been prejudiced in calling him so stupid as to be incapable of any but the most... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Fletcher | Elizabeth's father, Miles Dawson
, was land-agent to the local proprietor Wilmer Gossip
. Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, AMS Press, pp. 283 -5. 289 |
Friends, Associates | Ann Yearsley | After the debacle with More
, AY
acquired a higher-status patron in Frederick Augustus Hervey, Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry
, a man who could afford to ignore public opinion, and who supported... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Fletcher | By the following year she had established a correspondence with her father's employer, Wilmer Gossip
, which reveals an astonishingly relaxed and equal relationship between them. Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, AMS Press, pp. 283 -5. 292 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Yearsley | As early as March-April 1788 AY
's backers Eliza Dawson
and Wilmer Gossip
were suggesting that a play would offer a better chance of financial return than poetry. Yearsley drafted her lost play Bawdin at... |
Occupation | Eliza Fletcher | This friendship was built on a shared interest in literature, in patronising the poor or socially oppressed who aspired to writing, in encouraging inoculation and in promoting Sunday schools. Eliza was interested particularly in the... |
Publishing | Ann Yearsley | In this volume she meant to prove that her poetry was even better when not tampered with by Hannah More
. Her Preface relates the circumstances of their quarrel over the terms of the trust... |
Textual Production | Ann Yearsley | AY
added thirty-eight extra lines in ink to her poem Addressed to Friendship in a copy of her Poems, on Various Subjects (published in 1787), directing the new lines to her patron Wilmer Gossip
. Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, AMS Press, pp. 283 -5. 291 |
Textual Production | Ann Yearsley | During the time she was preparing these poems for publication, Yearsley equipped herself with a new team of patrons: Wilmer Gossip
, a Yorkshire landowner with poor health, who was given to spending time at... |
Textual Production | Ann Yearsley | By about 17 November 1788 AY
had completed the draft of another tragedy, on the subject of the Carthaginian general Hamilcar
, of which she then sent a copy to Wilmer Gossip
. Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, AMS Press, pp. 283 -5. 303, 305 |
Textual Production | Eliza Fletcher | A small selection of extracts from EF
's letters before her marriage were included in her Autobiography. Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Mary, Lady Richardson,Editor , Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874. 51-4 |
Travel | Ann Yearsley | AY
took the opportunity of mentioning to Wilmer Gossip
on 17 November 1788 that she had just spent a week at Bath, but that she had found its Circle of fashionable Dissipation uncongenial, and... |
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