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, 2001, pp. 193-32.
This was EG
's least successful play. Both in the theatre and in print, responses sound designed to put an impudent female newcomer in her place. Bookseller Tom Davies
claimed there was a positive cabal...
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...
Residence
Ruth Fainlight
The house, reached by a steep cart-track with hairpin bends, stood in an olive grove with a grapevine over the door. RF
went back to England the following autumn, and was still there when Sillitoe...
Residence
Anne Damer
AD
lived at Strawberry Hill from the time that Horace Walpole
left it to her until 1811.
Residence
Elizabeth Hervey
EH
was living at Brussels by 1781. In autumn 1789 she and her sons had returned from abroad and were living at Braziers Park near Ipsden in Oxfordshire, a house in the playfully Gothic...
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
58-9
Such elements as the heroine's unconsciously offering herself to the male gaze, revealing intimate physical charms as she lies asleep, probably do not stem directly...
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 Features
Hannah More
HM
writes her Hints in full political consciousness of the likelihood that she is trying to shape a future ruler. Her claim to have remained uninfluenced by Wollstonecraft
or Catharine Macaulay
(whom she called patriotic...
Textual Features
Isabella Kelly
Bibliographer James Raven
suggests that the gothic accoutrements here seem rather in tongue-in-cheek, somewhat in the manner of Horace Walpole
's The Castle of Otranto.
Raven, James. “Historical Introduction: The Novel Comes of Age”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 14-117.
33
The family situation of the hero seems transcribed...
Textual Features
Georgina Munro
A debauched earl is the narrator of this novel, which, typically for the genre, is peopled by characters from the gentry and the upper classes.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
744 (1842):110
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
The story is set during the reign of...
Textual Features
Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan
Although Sir Joshua Reynolds
supposed MBCL
insufficiently skilled as an artist to manage history painting,
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
8: 238
and Rose E. McCalmont
in Memoirs of the Binghams, 1915, was dismissive about her artistic work, Horace Walpole
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
Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach
In 1775 she told Horace Walpole
, in reply to verse flattery from him, that she was Conscious that oft she felt the Muse's pow'r, / But conscious too, she felt it oft in vain.
qtd. in
Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, 1914, p. i - cxxxviii.