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Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley

Standard Name: Wortley, Lady Emmeline Stuart

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Dedications	L. E. L.	It was dedicated to Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley , descendant of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . A modern reprint appeared in 1992.
Reception	Catherine Gore	When CG 's play won the prize, a storm of controversy arose, in which the result was contested and every aspect of the selection process subjected to scrutiny and argument. There were rumours of fixing...
Textual Features	Dorothy Wellesley	DW 's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington , doyenne of the albums...
Textual Production	Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington	Marguerite Blessington edited the annual The Keepsake, in succession to F. M. Reynolds , Caroline Norton , and Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley . Library catalogues all have the period of her editorship as 1841-1850. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press. 150

Timeline

August 1843

Lady Emmeline Wortley 's play Moonshine was condemned by the critics when it opened at the Haymarket .

Texts

Reynolds, Frederic Mansel et al., editors. The Keepsake. Hurst, Chance; R. Jennings.