Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
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Literary responses | Sarah Flower Adams | Fox
describes the play in Lectures Addressed Chiefly to the Working Classes as one of the purest and loveliest specimens ever yet produced of the dramatic poem. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 6 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lucy Aikin | LA
's preface denies the absurd notion that absolute gender equality might be feasible and advises women not to attempt to become inferior men. But she asserts, there is not an endowment, or propensity, or... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Astell | How, she asks, can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? Astell, Mary. The First English Feminist. Editor Hill, Bridget, St Martin’s Press. 111 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Atwood | Jocelyn has in a distant past studied English literature and is occasionally disconcerting. Do you believe in free will?, she asks, out of the blue. Stan replies, How do you mean? Atwood, Margaret. The Heart Goes Last. Nan A. Talese / Doubleday. 119 |
Education | Joanna Baillie | From the age of ten she went to a boarding school in Glasgow which specialised in transforming healthy little hoydens into perfect little ladies. Witchcraft by Joanna Baillie. Finborough Theatre. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Joanna Baillie | The poems present human shifts of mood and quirks of feeling. They are sensitively observed and charmingly written. The only modern poets she yet knew of to admire, JB
said later, were William Hayley
and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Clara Balfour | In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's... |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | She also kept up her output of political poetry. Only a few years after this Hannah More
's Bishop Bonner's Ghost (a ballad extolling, through irony, the modern, enlightened Church of England
) drew from... |
Textual Production | Maria Barrell | This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior
on the title-page. Barrell, Maria. Reveries du Coeur. Dodsley, Walter, Owen, and Yeats. prelims |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Battier | This is the first example in print of HB
's satiric style: heroic couplets which gallop along with perfect control and slashing vituperation. It opens magnificently: Unknowing either, and to both unknown, / An individual... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Beeton | Notwithstanding the putative focus on management, the bulk of the 44-chapter book is taken up with discussion of food, from the chapters on Arrangement and Economy of the Kitchen and Introduction to Cookery to the... |
Literary responses | Aphra Behn | The Gentleman's Magazine, in a piece called The Apotheosis of Milton, describes AB
trying unsuccessfully to get into Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto. 126 |
Education | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Because of her mother's early death, MBE
, she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 124 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Beverley | The report of her death may have been optimistic in calling her an actress of some celebrity at Covent garden and Drury lane Theatre. “Reverse of Fortune”. The Guardian and Public Ledger. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Eliza Bleecker | Margaretta married, against her father's wishes, a French Jacobin doctor; the marriage turned out unhappy. Besides her posthumous edition of her mother's works, she published a blank-verse tragedy, Belisarius, and poems including one on... |