Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley

Standard Name: Wortley, Lady Emmeline Stuart

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press.
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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...

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 .

Texts

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