Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
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Dedications | Charlotte Smith | It carried a dedication, dated 10 May, to Cowper
, who had read and revised a draft. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998. 195-6 |
Education | Sarah Josepha Hale | |
Education | Emma Marshall | At a very early age Emma Martin could recite See'st thou my home is where yon woods are waving by Felicia Hemans
. qtd. in Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900. 8 |
Education | Jean Ingelow | |
Education | Georgiana Fullerton | She could read by four-and-a-half, and recalls an early admiration for hymns by Anna Letitia Barbauld
and Maria Edgeworth
. Julius Cæsar, the first Shakespearean
play that she saw, left a lasting impression. Later... |
Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
Education | Anna Swanwick | |
Education | Maria Theresa Longworth | MTL
was educated in France at an Ursuline convent school. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003. 137 Erickson, Arvel B., and John R. McCarthy. “The Yelverton Case: Civil Legislation and Marriage”. Victorian Studies, Vol. 14 , 1971, pp. 275-91. 275 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | The Cowper family, many of whose male members distinguished themselves in the law and in politics, used a confusing amount of repetition in naming their children in successive generations. Almost a majority of JCM
's... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | JCM
's nephew William Cowper
the poet, with whom she corresponded, took an interest in her work and was probably the channel through which her poems reached the anthologists Colman
and Thornton
. Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Collecting Women: Poetry and Lives, 1700-1780. Bucknell University Press, 2009. 155n55 |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Smith | On a month-long visit to William Hayley
, CS
met the poet Cowper
, his friend Mary Unwin
, and the painter George Romney
. Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941. 155-7 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Scott | MS
was probably a friend from an early age of the dissenting hymn-writer Anne Steele
, who lived not very far away and who was a generation older. They spent much time together in 1773... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christian Gray | CG
says of Bessy Bell and Mary Gray that she was instructed by the lowliest of the muses to sing of ladies. Gray, Christian. Tales, Letters, and other Pieces in Verse. Printed for the author by Oliver and Boyd, 1808. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dora Greenwell | She opens the essay with a sharp and witty caricature of others' representations of unmarried women: they have, it is true, gained much both socially and æsthetically in passing from the traditionary type—the withered prude... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Selina Davenport | It opens with England, with all thy faults I love thee still!—a quotation not from Byron
's Beppo, which lay still two years in the future, but from Cowper
's The Task (whence... |