Janice Thaddeus

Standard Name: Thaddeus, Janice

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Delany
Her father, Colonel Bernard Granville, had been both a Member of Parliament and Lieutenant Governor of Hull. Despite this, literary historian Janice Farrar Thaddeus aptly calls him an impecunious youngest son of a younger...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Delany
Literary historian Janice Thaddeus notes that MD celebrates her second husband for characteristics that would not have been inappropriate for a woman: not for his wit or learning, but for the excellence of his heart...
Literary responses George Paston
A recent Delany scholar, Janice Farrar Thaddeus , calls this book useful, unromantic, and fairly accurate.
Thaddeus, Janice. “Mary Delany, Model to the Age”. History, Gender & Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Beth Fowkes Tobin, University of Georgia Press, 1994, pp. 113-40.
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She notes that GP 's methods are those of the professional archival historian: for this book Paston uses...
Reception Mary Delany
George Ballard honoured MD with the dedication of the second volume of his Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, 1752, calling her the truest judge and brightest pattern
qtd. in
Thaddeus, Janice. “Mary Delany, Model to the Age”. History, Gender & Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Beth Fowkes Tobin, University of Georgia Press, 1994, pp. 113-40.
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of female accomplishments. She...
Textual Features Mary Delany
Janice Thaddeus discusses the prerogative MD assumed in giving names of her own invention to people and places. Her uncle Lansdowne was Alcander (a violent man mentioned in Plutarch 's Lives, who was forgiven...
Textual Production Mary Robinson
During the four and a half years she was writing for Hookham and Carpenter, MR took the risk herself, but sold less well than she had expected and cleared less than ten pounds a year...
Textual Production Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
She thus, years later, doubly disparaged her own earliest effort. Rejected by Thomas Cadell , then accepted by Thomas Hookham , this work has not been firmly identified.
Literary historian Janice Thaddeus notes that a...

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Texts

Thaddeus, Janice, and Isobel Grundy. Letter about Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins to Isobel Grundy.
Thaddeus, Janice. “Mary Delany, Model to the Age”. History, Gender & Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Beth Fowkes Tobin, University of Georgia Press, 1994, pp. 113-40.
Fergus, Jan, and Janice Thaddeus. “Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790-1820”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol.
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, 1987, pp. 191-07.