Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
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Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | In Richmond and elsewhere MC
met emigrés fleeing the French Revolution. She also met a number of women who wrote: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, Mary
and Agnes Berry
, and Anne Damer
. In... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Clive | She was capable of equally strong feeling in other contexts, such as her passionate desire for success as a poet. Having written about this ambition to the literary historian Isaac D'Israeli
and the philosopher Dugald Stewart |
Friends, Associates | Maria Edgeworth | In Edinburgh she met Professor Dugald Stewart
, his wife Helen
, and the writer Elizabeth Hamilton
, with whom she developed a friendship continued by correspondence. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972. 197-9 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hamilton | While in Wales they visited Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(the ladies of Llangollen) and in the Lakes they stayed with Elizabeth Smith
and her family. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818, 2 vols. 1: 152-4 Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, In Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1811. 151 |
Leisure and Society | Anna Letitia Barbauld | There she electrified a social gathering at the house of Dugald Stewart
by her reading of William Taylor
's still unpublished translation of Bürger
's highly emotional Lenore. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 365 |
Publishing | Caroline Clive | Even before her first publication the future CC
had sent specimens of her poetry, under the name of George Ferrol or P. Ferrol, to literary men and potential patrons. But Isaac D'Israeli
, Dugald Stewart |
Textual Production | Caroline Clive | In 1823 and 1827 respectively, CC
approached the literary historian Isaac D'Israeli
and the philosopher Dugald Stewart
about her burning desire to be a poet. D'Israeli (to whom she had used a masculine pseudonym) replied... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Hamilton | EH
dedicated this work to the Scottish clergyman and philosopher Archibald Alison
. Its full title was A Series of Popular Essays, Illustrative of Principles Essentially Connected with the Improvement of the Understanding, the Imagination... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb
, but also Dugald Stewart
and Henry Brougham
), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against... |
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