Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Elizabeth Inchbald
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Standard Name: Inchbald, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Simpson
Married Name: Elizabeth Inchbald
Pseudonym: Mrs Woodley
Nickname: Mrs Perfection
EI
was a diarist from her teens. Before and after her debut on as an actress on the London stage in 1780, she considered writing as a way to make a living. Before she had made any headway getting her first novel accepted, she became a prolific dramatist: she wrote or translated twenty-one plays (about half of them adaptations). Three major theatrical editing projects appeared under her name. In the early twenty-first century her reputation stands high both as novelist and dramatist.
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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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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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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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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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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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Rose Tremain
RT
published a novel entitled Music and Silence, which she dedicated to her daughter, Eleanor.
Scholar John Mullan
has related the title to others employing two abstract nouns, like Elizabeth Inchbald
's Nature and...
Wilkes, Joanne. “’Only the broken music’? The Critical Writings of Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 105-18.
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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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Annie Tinsley
AT
, as the author of Margaret; or, Prejudice at Home, published a novel with a female first-person protagonist, Women as They Are. By One of Them.
The title of Women as They...
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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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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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Vernon Lee
In her first essay, Lee offers a summary analysis of the English novelistic tradition. Judging them especially, though not entirely, on their treatments of morality, she evaluates writers including Jane Austen
, Maria Edgeworth
,...
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Anna Seward
AS
's correspondence often deals with literary matters as well as with social matters and personalities. She writes with astonishing freedom to Hester Piozzi
about the latter's travel book Observations and Reflections: not only...
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Martha Hale
She writes on public themes with equal panache, attacking colonial appropriations and in another poem calling Warren Hastings
an oppressed hero. She addresses public men and women, and here too is attentive to women's issues...
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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...
