Leonard R. N. Ashley

Standard Name: Ashley, Leonard R. N.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Brooke
CB 's mother, born Catherine Meares , was a Methodist. According to CB 's memoirist Crossley-Seymour, she was left an orphan in Henry Brooke's care before she was in her teens, and he then married...
Literary responses Charlotte Brooke
CB was warmly appreciated in Ireland. She influenced there a parallel effort to preserve traditional music as she had preserved traditional words: that of Edward Bunting , who edited in 1796 the first volume...
Publishing Charlotte Brooke
A facsimile reprint published by Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints at Gainesville, Florida, in 1970 brings together both the text of Reliques of Irish Poetry, 1789, and that of Seymour's memoir from the reprint...
Textual Features Clemence Dane
It was the publication of this book, about a dying novelist's literary friends assessing her life and writings, which drew her into writing for the theatre. Leonard R. N. Ashley in the Oxford Dictionary of...
Textual Production Charlotte Brooke
Her contributions are Carolan 's Receipt,
Leonard R. N. Ashley calls this famous Irish bard Turlogh O'Carolan .
Ashley, Leonard R. N. et al. “Introduction”. Reliques of Irish Poetry, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1970, p. v - xv.
vi
Carolan's Monody on the death of Mary Mac Guire, and Tiagharna Mhaighe-eo.
Walker, Joseph C. Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards. Printed for the author by Luke White, 1786.
87-8, 94-5, 103-6

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Texts

Charke, Charlotte, and Leonard R. N. Ashley. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke. Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1969.
Ashley, Leonard R. N. Colley Cibber. Twayne, 1965.
Ashley, Leonard R. N., and Charlotte Charke. “Introduction”. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1969, p. vii - xxiv.
Ashley, Leonard R. N. et al. “Introduction”. Reliques of Irish Poetry, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1970, p. v - xv.