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Amelia Opie |
AO
was an indefatigable letter-writer. Her surviving correspondence at the Huntington Library
includes 331 letters (1794-1850). Most are written by her to her cousin Eliza (Alderson) Briggs
or her husband; a few are from her...
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Eglinton Wallace |
It was (as the title-page acknowledged) based on a French original, Guerre ouverte, ou ruse contre ruse, by Antoine-Jean Bourlin
, who used the pseudonym Dumaniant. Elizabeth Inchbald
translated the same play under...
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Maria Edgeworth |
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Eliza Parsons |
It shared the bill (which was given for the benefit of actress Isabella Mattocks
) with Elizabeth Inchbald
's The Child of Nature (adapted from Genlis
) and The Soldier's Festival; or, The Night before...
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Jane Austen |
John Murray
was apparently planning a collected edition of JA
's novels in 1831, when Cassandra Austen
wrote on 20 May with detailed queries about it, but the project did not go through. A year...
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Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson |
SSW
, or her publishers, did not always acknowledge the sources of her popular works. Indeed, the claim to be An Original Romance was at least once made fraudulently. John Bull; or, The Englishman's Fire-Side...
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Phebe Gibbes |
PG
's next novel, The History of Miss Sommerville, published as a Lady, has not been widely attributed to her; someone ascribed it to Mrs Inchbauld (which the date makes impossible) in the...
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Anne Plumptre |
Her version of La Perouse was refused a licence, on political grounds, by the censor John Larpent
(husband of Anna Margaretta Larpent
). The Natural Son, 1798, was her translation of Das Kind der...
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Anna Letitia Barbauld |
The importance of politics in ALB
's journalism is shown by her declining an invitation from Maria Edgeworth
in 1804 to associate herself with a journal written entirely by women, on the grounds that the...
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Elizabeth Hamilton |
EH
would clearly have been unable, for health reasons, to participate in the abortive Longman
's project reported by Catherine Hutton
very shortly before Hamilton died—a projected women's periodical, which was to bear EH
's...
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Alice Meynell |
She often used this column to address the works of literary women of the past. She judged Jane Austen
inferior to Charlotte Brontë
, accepting Brontë's opinion that Austen lacked what she, by implication, possessed:...
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Elizabeth Jenkins |
The ten women here share varying degrees and varying combinations of sexual, political, or literary notoriety. Two of them— Elizabeth Inchbald
and Lady Blessington
—hold the status of professional authors. Two more— Becky Wells (whom...
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Julia Kavanagh |
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Anne Katharine Elwood |
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Susanna Haswell Rowson |
In this humorous poem the author draws on her first-hand knowledge, as an actor and singer, with the London stage. She marshals thirty-four of it actors and writers to appear before Apollo, who metes out...
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