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Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Hervey | EH
's half-brother, the brilliant but unstable writer and gothicist William Beckford
the younger, was about twelve years her junior. In his teens in Switzerland (whose wild mountain landscapes made a deep impression on him)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Hervey | By autumn 1789 (only a couple of years after he had entertained her at his beloved, self-designed home) EH
's half-brother, William Beckford
, developed suspicions about her loyalty to him. By the following year... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | Shortly after this caper, she entered Byron's rooms, from which he was absent, and wrote in his copy of William Beckford
's Vathek, Remember me! Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 144 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | She was an ornament of high society and sought out literary friends. She was, for instance, a long-term friend and correspondent of Horace Walpole
, who published her writings on his private press at Strawberry Hill |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Gore | CG
was acquainted with a number of important literary figures. Before leaving London for the Continent she attended an assembly given by Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
to which Disraeli
, Lady Morgan
, and Letitia Landon
also... |
Leisure and Society | Lady Eleanor Butler | They treated the house like a smaller version of an ancestral family estate. They added various improvements, like the library at the back, which had windows in pointed gothic arches, paintings and miniatures on the... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Hervey | The Critical Reviewread this pleasing and interesting story as an imitation of Burney
's Cecilia.If there is a fault, it suggested, it was the structural fault of raising and solving one difficulty... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Hervey | It has been until recently a given of literary history that William Beckford
had his half-sister in his sights in his two burlesques on women's novel-writing. The title-page of the first quotes Pope
, thus... |
Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Lamb
worried intensely about the probable reception of Ada Reis, particularly the scenes in hell, and he tried to enlist William Gifford
of the Quarterly as an ally in pressuring Caroline to tone... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | William Beckford
, who had already demonstrated his hostility to women writers, annotated his copy of this work (which is now in the Beinecke Library
at Yale University
). He uses Benger as an example... |
Author summary | Elizabeth Hervey | Elizabeth Hervey
was the author of six novels published between 1788 and 1814, besides one more, extant in a carefully-bound manuscript, which never reached print. They have something in them of sentiment and something of... |
Reception | Elizabeth Hervey | The History of Ned Evans appeared after William Beckford
's Modern Novel Writing but before his next burlesque novel, Azemia. It does not, however, look like a specific target of Azemia, a satirical... |
Reception | Cassandra, Lady Hawke | CLH
's immediate family were warm in their admiration. Frances Burney
, who read Julia de Gramont when it was passed to her by the queen, found it all of a piece—all love, love, love... |
Residence | Ruth Fainlight | The house, reached by a steep cart-track with hairpin bends, stood in an olive grove with a grapevine over the door. RF
went back to England the following autumn, and was still there when Sillitoe... |
Textual Features | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Italy contains guidebook material (it draws on Romantic works like William Beckford
's Italy), as well as political analysis of the country's restored anciens régimes, and of the dirty work Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988. 178 |