| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Mary Wollstonecraft | The Vindication provoked a storm of comment and replies, in reviews (the Monthly was respectful both of her project and its execution, but the Critical, though its review was long and detailed, was scathingly... |
| Textual Production | Anne Wharton | This means that someone saw her work as a saleable property, and someone else wanted to keep it from print. It is not known who, or for what motives. The manuscript of the verse drama... |
| Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | Novels adapted by MW
are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells
, aired on Radio 4
in 1984 and runner-up... |
| Literary responses | Melesina Trench | Before publishing MT
's private writings, her son showed them to Edward FitzGerald
. Fitzgerald responded positively, judging them the equal of published letters by the writers Horace Walpole
and Robert Southey
. He showed... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Josephine Tey | Shortly before her death, JT
published her best-known detective novel, The Daughter of Time, which successfully popularised revisionist theories about Richard III
. The title alludes to |
| Leisure and Society | Agnes Strickland | AS
in time became something of a social celebrity as a result of various factors: the popularity of her published works, their royal and romantic subject-matter, and the reclusiveness of her elder sister, who left... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Smith | It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard
did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children... |
| Textual Production | Mary Shelley | During this year MS
helped her husband arrange the scenes in his incest-drama, The Cenci. Purinton, Marjean D. “Polysexualities and Romantic Generations in Mary Shelley’s Mythological Dramas <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Midas</span> and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Proserpine</span>”;. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 385-11. 388 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | MR
's affairs with the prince and with Fox overlapped with the beginning of what turned out to be her most enduring relationship: with Banastre Tarleton
, an army colonel and a pitiless hero in... |
| Literary responses | Clara Reeve | This time a review (again dealing in imagination with a man) quoted from the preface, and pronounced: This is no common novel—it may, in some respects, claim a place upon the same shelf with The... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Clara Reeve | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Clara Reeve | The story is set in late feudal times, and the action carried by male characters, while women are insignificant. Nevertheless several of its themes, like unjust exclusion from succession or inheritance, lend themselves readily to... |
| Travel | Ann Radcliffe | Within a month or so they were off again, to the English Lake District, visiting their relations in the north on the way (AR
's parents were now settled in Chesterfield). This... |
| Textual Features | Ann Radcliffe | It is set, as the title implies, in the Highlands of Scotland. The hero, Osbert, is a Scots peasant who proves to be of noble birth. The novel stands squarely in the gothic tradition... |
| Textual Features | Ann Radcliffe | Again AR
's influences are Walpole
and Reeve
. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 58-9 |
