Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971.
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Cultural formation | Jean Rhys | JR
's maternal great-grandfather, John Potter Lockhart
of Old Jewry, London, acquired the Genever Plantation in 1824. The plantation was at times prosperous, but problems occurred as a result of natural disasters and labour disruptions... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Eleanor Butler | They were outraged, and at once sought legal advice from Edmund Burke
(who had experienced image problems of a not dissimilar kind). Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971. 83-4 Brideoake, Fiona. “Keep Yourself in Your Own Persons, Where You Are: The Ladies of Llangollen and Queer Self-Fashioning”. 42nd ASECS Annual Meeting, 18 Mar. 2011. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Procter | AP
's father, Bryan Waller Procter
, was a successful London barrister. As Metropolitan Commissioner of Lunacy (from 1832 to 1861) Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Bryan Waller Procter |
Fictionalization | Lady Eleanor Butler | Among many less formal honours during the ladies' lifetimes, the most extraordinary was LEB
's award of a French, ancien régime, military medal: the Croix St Louis. It is shown in a famous portrait of... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Norton | In the mid-1840s CN
acquired some new friends: biographer John Gibson Lockhart
, author Alexander William Kinglake
, rising young statesman Sidney Herbert
(direct descendant of the Countess of Pembroke
), and the intellectual translator... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | She was welcomed into Edinburgh society, where she attended dinners, masked balls, and concerts. Through her London editors, John Murray
and John Gibson Lockhart
, she made literary connections. She knew Professor John Wilson
and... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | In London, she met theCarlyles
and John Gibson Lockhart
's daughter Charlotte
. She was also introduced to her future husband, Charles Eastlake
. She called on Agnes Strickland
and Maria Edgeworth
. Lord Shaftesbury |
Friends, Associates | Anne Grant | Among AG
's acquaintances in her later years were Felicia Hemans
and Thomas Campbell
. Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, 1901, pp. 237-96. 293 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Maria Edgeworth | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | In an extraordinary passage near the end of the book, Cecil lists a number of people who might, if they could only work together, revolutionize the country. qtd. in Farrell, John P. “Toward a New History of Fiction: The Wolff Collection and the Example of Mrs. Gore”. The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, Vol. 37 , 1986, pp. 28-37. 36 |
Literary responses | Lady Louisa Stuart | J. G. Lockhart
admired LLS
's letter on The Heart of Mid-Lothian so much that he included much of its text in his The Life of Sir Walter Scott, finding her comments on the... |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Political economy was controversial in itself, and the potentially scandalous exposition by a young unmarried female of matters having to do with population control provided grist for the mills of hostile reviewers. HM
recollected hearing... |
Literary responses | Anna Seward | Scott
in his introduction gave a vivid description of AS
's good looks (even in old age), especially the poetical attributes of dark, flashing eyes and a melodious voice. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 253-4 |
Literary responses | Sir Walter Scott | Lady Louisa Stuart
sent a detailed letter of appreciative criticism soon after publication, which Scott's biographer J. G. Lockhart
admired enough to publish it in full. |
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