Matthew Reilly

Standard Name: Reilly, Matthew

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politics May Drummond
Literary historian Matthew Reilly says MD was a fervent Jacobite,
Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
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, No. 2, Nov. 2015, pp. 287-12.
292
which would have set her at odds (quite apart from her religious opinions) with her Whig family and especially its head, her brother George .
Textual Production May Drummond
A preface (dated the 26th of the third month, that is, in the Quaker system of naming the months, May) was supplied by the Reading publisher, Jonathan Nelson . Copies were sold in London by...

Timeline

By March 1767: There was published in London The Female...

Writing climate item

By March 1767

There was published in LondonThe Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Elizabeth Winkfield, whose mixed-race heroine recounts her life story.
London, April. Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
97ff
Winkfield, Unca Eliza. The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield. Editor Burnham, Michelle, Broadview, 2001.
10-11, 192
Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
28
, No. 2, Nov. 2015, pp. 287-12.
307

Texts

Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
28
, No. 2, pp. 287-12.