Thomas Crawford

Standard Name: Crawford, Thomas

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
Elizabeth Sarah Villa-Real (later Gooch) first fell in love, with a young doctor, Thomas Crawford , whom she met in romantic circumstances at the ruins of Fountains Abbey.
Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah. The Life of Mrs Gooch. Printed for the authoress and sold by C. and G. Kearsley, 1792, 3 vols.
1: 27ff
Textual Features Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
In this first publication ESG stands on her dignity. She opens with a Johnson ian aphorism (Some alleviation of our distresses is always derived from communication)
Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah. An Appeal to the Public. G. Kearsley, 1788.
prelims
and closes on a note of...
Textual Features Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
Many of the poems continue the autobiographical mode of her first two books, with fawning gratitude for favourable reception as a writer. Many are elegiac, lamenting or commemorating people and places that had been dear...

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Texts

Lustig, Irma S. “The Myth of Johnson’s Misogyny in the Life of Johnson: Another View”. Boswell in Scotland and Beyond, edited by Thomas Crawford and Thomas Crawford, Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1997.