Among her earlier literary friends, MRM
wrote with particular warmth of Barbara Hofland
(with whom she stayed in London for the first night of her play Julian), Eleanor Porden
, and Joanna Baillie
...
Friends, Associates
Anna Jane Vardill
While she lived in London AJV
moved in culturally active circles. She later described the poet Eleanor Anne Porden
(who lived not far away) as her dear friend, and was one of those who...
Intertextuality and Influence
Eliza Dunlop
The Mitchell Library
in Sydney holds a manuscript album of ED
's poems entitled The Vase comprising Songs for Music and Poems . . . 1814-1866, whose title sounds like an allusion to the...
Textual Features
Dinah Mulock Craik
Despite her regular invocation of conventional gender roles, DMC
, like Felicia Hemans
before her, considers alternative views of heroic male effort in poems such as her later The Arctic Exploration: from the Woman's Side...
Textual Features
Sheenagh Pugh
Of the two sequences, Fanfic presents a fictional character—lean, cool, charismatic, deadly star of a series—whom a woman imagines with such intensity as almost to make him real. She fantasizes that if she believes in...
Textual Production
Barbara Hofland
BH
's correspondence with Mary Russell Mitford
(whose earliest surviving letter dates from 25 May 1820) reveals her as an active and eclectic reader. The two women exchanged responses to Anna Maria Porter
, Amelia Opie
Textual Production
Anna Jane Vardill
Anna Jane Niven, formerly Vardill
, addressed to her five-year-old daughter
a letter covering the gift of manuscripts from Eleanor Anne Porden
's Attic Chest, and three linked and recent articles: A Little Girl's Law-Book...
Textual Production
Anna Jane Vardill
AJV
was the second most prolific contributor (after Porden herself) to Eleanor Anne Porden
's Attic Chest during the years of its flourishing, 1808-15. Porden followed the model of Anna, Lady Miller
's Batheaston Vase...
Textual Production
Anna Jane Vardill
Tabby-Hall, as a community of unattached women, was invented by members of the Attic Chest circle run by Eleanor Anne Porden
.
Snell, Susan. “Enlightenment Females and Freemasonry”. Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, No. 1-2.