| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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... |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | Sir William Elford had suggested to MRM
by 1824 that (always needing money) she might publish her letters to him. She replied that, if she published, her free comments on books and authors would make... |
| Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | According to the surviving manuscript, the two women produced their verse responses on the very day that Eleanor Bowes was said (years later, by the cynical Horace Walpole
) to die of the violence of... |
| Textual Production | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | Horace Walpole
received from a mutual friend, the Countess of Upper Ossory
, some verses by MBCL
(whom the big Yale
edition of Walpole's correspondence is unable to identify). Walpole, Horace. The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence. Editor Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon, Yale University Press. 34:131) |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Geraldine Jewsbury | Zoe reflects GJ
's own lifelong spiritual crisis. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 223-4 Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 72 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Maria Mackenzie | AMM
's opening address To the Readers of Modern Romance says that ancient romance was put paid to by the new source of amusement . . . struck out by Henry Fielding
and Richardson
(to... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Moody | The volume opens with an anti-war poem (as well as reprinting Anna's Complaint and The Temptation) and includes several pieces on deaths: of family members, of a baby, of Edward Lovibond
, of Horace Walpole |
| Travel | Thomas Gray | The great adventure of Gray's life was his accompanying Horace Walpole
on the Grand Tour, 1739-41. Each young man left a vivid description of their passage over the Alps into Italy. Their time abroad... |
| 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... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Anne Damer | John Damer had lost £20,000 at the gaming tables in a single night not long before his death—a sum to cast a shadow over his expectations of inheriting £30,000. Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press. 366n27 |
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