Andrew Elfenbein

Critic Andrew Elfenbein interprets her assumption in her poetry of the male role of genius to suggest a degree of lesbian orientation in AB , though nothing is known of her sexual attitudes or behaviour.

The notice in the Critical Review was uncomplimentary, dismissing her as an imitator of Scott , John Leyden , and William Wordsworth .The Poetical Register praised the volume for poetical...

Critic Andrew Elfenbein considers that the true subject of AD 's bas-relief of Antony and Cleopatra is physical intimacy between women, in this case between Cleopatra and Charmian.

Literary historian Andrew Elfenbein argues that these attacks formed part of a general assault on the morals of the aristocracy. AD stepped up her artistic activities during the next decade, and this rendered her liable...

AD was not only a diarist, novelist, and amateur actress: she became, from the 1780s, a successful and even famous sculptor. Andrew Elfenbein notes the application to her of such terms as female genius and...