Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Elizabeth Bonhote
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Standard Name: Bonhote, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Mapes
Married Name: Elizabeth Bonhote
Pseudonym: The Author of Hortensia, Rambles of Mr Frankley, and The
Fashionable Friend
Styled: Mrs Bonhote of Bungay
Pseudonym: E. B.
Used Form: A Lady
Used Form: Mrs Bonhote
During the later eighteenth century EB
published seven novels (one historical) and a conduct book. Her volume of poetry dates from the next century. The conduct book had the greatest success. On most issues she is stereotypically conservative, but she shows humour and insight about the predicament of the woman writer. She was clearly serious about her own career.
Trainer, James, and Clara Reeve. “Introduction”. The Old English Baron, Oxford University Press, 1977.
xviii
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
(who was also a good friend to other women writers from around the British Isles: to...
Literary responses
Phebe Gibbes
Andrew Becket
in the Monthly Review thought this novel dull and derivative; confronted with Elizabeth Bonhote
's anonymous Olivia a few months later he thought the two suspiciously similar.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 379-80, 403
The English Review...
Literary responses
Susanna Haswell Rowson
The Critical Review situated this work in reference to two others: Sterne
's Sentimental Journey and Elizabeth Bonhote
's The Rambles of Mr. Frankly. (It apparently did not remember Eliza Haywood
's The Invisible...
Publishing
Mary Deverell
A dedication to the Princess Royal praises the immortal writings of many other women, or rather ladies. MD
herself, she says, is a person of obscure and undistinguished rank, who yet hath not reliquished the...
Publishing
Eliza Parsons
She gave her name as Mrs. Parsons on the title-page and signed the dedication with both her names.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 512
A title-page epigraph reads: Brutus said Virtue was but a name—tis more. ....
Textual Features
Jane Harvey
In addition to quotation from Milton
, Pope
, and Thomson
, this book has a Sterne
an flavour, with passages titled from sights (like The Theatre Royal and The Merchants's Court) alternating with...
Textual Features
Catharine Macaulay
The letters are addressed to Hortensia (the name of a Roman matron who acted against gender convention by speaking publicly in the Forum against a proposed tax on women).
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
115
This name had been used...
Textual Features
Jane West
JW
uses heroic couplets for formal poems like To the Island of Sicily (on the retreat of the king and queen of the Two Sicilies before the French Army of Italy, commanded by Napoleon
...
Textual Features
Sarah Trimmer
In addition to Catharine Cappe
's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
, the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...
