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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The literary society of ALB
's time was, as biographer Betsy Rodgers notes, small and intimate. Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen. 80 |
Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Frances Burney
thought this the best of all Barbauld's poems. Hannah More
wrote to thank ALB
for writing so well on a subject so near her, More's heart, Paul, Lissa. The Children’s Book Business. Routledge. 111 |
Friends, Associates | Frances Brooke | FB
's friendship with Woffington led to her meeting Peg's sister Polly
, who became her lifelong friend. Eight years older than Brooke, Polly Woffington was a close friend of Samuel Johnson
, Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rosa Nouchette Carey | One of the many novels which RNC
chose to dignify by quotations to head her chapters, this seems to make a particular attempt to impress. Those quoted imply considerable learning, even if (as seems likely)... |
Reception | Dorothea Celesia | A prologue by William Whitehead
mentioned DC
's right to inherit her father's theatrical talent, in spite of her sex: No Salick law here bars the female's claim. It concluded with the statement that critics... |
Education | Thomas Chatterton | As well as a basic school education, the young TC
(who had been thought slow as a small child) taught himself an astonishing range of abstruse subjects, mostly historical, by reading in circulating libraries and... |
Occupation | Thomas Chatterton | He was apprenticed as a legal scrivener or copyist and began, using a hoard of ancient manuscripts which had been in his father's possession, to write poems and fake their physical manifestation, attributing them to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Frederick Clark | EFC
's supposed great-grandfather, allegedly the father of Colonel Frederick, was Theodore Baron von Neuhoff
, a German military adventurer who had wide-ranging international experience before supporting the Corsican independence struggle. In April 1736 he... |
Textual Features | Lady Anne Clifford | LAC
's late writings share some characteristics of diary, biography, and autobiography. In some texts she writes in the first person, in others in the third. Her thinking is dynastic. She dwells on the web... |
Textual Production | Anne Conway | This correspondence is just part of a large haul discovered by Horace Walpole
in August 1758, lying around disregarded at Ragley Hall, partly rotten and partly gnawed by rats. Walpole rescued the collection and... |
Reception | Helen Craik | Apparently the only journal to notice Adelaide de Narbonne was the Anti-Jacobin in January 1800: it wished that Craik had not left her own political stance inexplicit. Craciun, Adriana, and Kari E. Lokke, editors. “The New Cordays: Helen Craik and British Representations of Charlotte Corday, 1793-1800”. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, State University of New York Press, pp. 193-32. 213 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Cuthbertson | The mode is that of Ann Radcliffe
. The names of the characters are all Italian, though the French or Spanish setting implied by the title is reflected in the appearance in the text of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Damer | Her father, Henry Seymour Conway
, was an army officer who rose to be Field-Marshal. His distinguished military career was matched by his services to Whig politics. His literary interests made him a friend of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Damer | Horace Walpole
was Anne's godfather. Noble, Percy. Anne Seymour Damer: A Woman of Art and Fashion, 1748-1828. Kegan Paul. 5 |
Instructor | Anne Damer | AD
's mastery of Latin and her respectable knowledge of Greek were self-acquired, though Horace Walpole
had a hand in her education. She studied sculpture from childhood, being taught by Giuseppe Ceracchi
, John Bacon |