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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. Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997. 150 |
Timeline
August 1843: Lady Emmeline Wortley's play Moonshine was...
Women writers item
August 1843
Lady Emmeline Wortley
's play Moonshine was condemned by the critics when it opened at the Haymarket
.
Donkin, Ellen. “Mrs. Gore gives tit for tat”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 54-74.
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Texts
Reynolds, Frederic Mansel et al., editors. The Keepsake. Hurst, Chance; R. Jennings, 30 vols.