Maria Callcott
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Standard Name: Callcott, Maria
Birth Name: Maria Dundas
Married Name: Maria Graham
Married Name: Maria Callcott
Titled: Maria, Lady Callcott
Used Form: Maria Graham (later Lady Callcott)
Used Form: Mrs Callcott
Used Form: Mrs Maria Graham
enlightenment interest in non-European cultures and civilizations with attention to the conditions of women and of the oppressed. The same qualities inform her writings about art and history, including those for children. She also published scientific writing. She was successful in terms of sales, but curiously unacceptable, even from early in her career, to reviewers. Her Little Arthur's History of England sold prodigiously and became a household name.
did much of her early-nineteenth-century writing and publication under her first married name of Maria Graham. She is important both as a travel writer and as an art historian. Her writing of Europe and more distant countries is intelligent and enquiring (particularly into issues of race, class, and gender ignored by most of her contemporaries), polished, vividly descriptive, and reflective of an age of revolutions. She combines an Timeline
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Callcott, Maria. A Description of the Chapel of the Annunziata dell’Arena. Printed for the author by T. Brettell, 1835.
Callcott, Maria. A Letter to the President and Members of the Geological Society. Printed by T. Brettell, 1834.
Callcott, Maria. A Short History of Spain. J. Murray, 1828.
Callcott, Maria. Antecipação de Pernambuco no movimento da independência, testemunho de uma inglesa. Translator Valente, Waldemar, Instituto Joaquim Nabuco de Pesquisas Sociais, 1974.
Callcott, Maria. Essays towards the History of Painting. E. Moxon, 1836.
Callcott, Maria, and William Shakespeare. “Introduction”. The Seven Ages of Shakspeare, edited by J. Martin and J. Martin, J. Van Voorst, 1840.
Callcott, Maria. “Introduction”. The Captain’s Wife, edited by Elizabeth Mavor, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993, p. xi - xiv.
Callcott, Maria. Journal of a Residence in Chile. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824.
Callcott, Maria. Journal of a Residence in India. A. Constable, 1812.
Callcott, Maria. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824.
Callcott, Maria. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Lawrence, C. E., and Maria Callcott. “Lady Callcott and Her Book”. Little Arthur’s History of England, Century Edition, J. Murray, 1936, p. xiii - xx.
Callcott, Maria. Letters on India. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; A. Constable, 1814.
Callcott, Maria. Little Arthur’s History of England. J. Murray, 1835.
Callcott, Maria, and C. E. Lawrence. Little Arthur’s History of England. Century Edition, J. Murray, 1936.
Callcott, Maria. Little Arthur’s History of England. Editor Lawrence, C. E., J. Murray, 1975.
Callcott, Maria. The Captain’s Wife. Editor Mavor, Elizabeth, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1993.
Callcott, Maria. Three Months Passed in the Mountains East of Rome. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.
Callcott, Maria, and George Anson, seventh Baron Byron, editors. Voyage of H. M. S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824-1825. J. Murray, 1826.