Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press.
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Friends, Associates | Frances Trollope | While in Paris, they were invited to spend time at the country estate La Grange, owned by General Lafayette
, who had fought during the French Revolution. Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press. 32-5 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | The Parisian scientific community warmly welcomed MS
on the basis of her translation of Laplace's Méchanique Céleste. As well as renewing contact with many of the scientific figures she had encountered on her previous... |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | She also reviewed works by Caroline Norton
, Thomas Moore
, and James Fenimore Cooper
. Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, pp. 9-45. 13 |
Literary responses | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | The volume was approvingly reviewed by James Fenimore Cooper
(who was later taken to court by CMS
's brother in a financial dispute). Damon-Bach, Lucinda L., and Victoria Clements, editors. “Editorial Materials”. Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives, Northeastern University Press, p. various pages. xxiv-xxxv |
Reception | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | A measure of her success as a writer is the fact that in 1834 CMS
was one of only two women (the other was Martha Washington
) chosen for inclusion in the National Portrait Gallery... |
Literary responses | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | CMS
received considerable critical and popular acclaim during her lifetime: Nathaniel Hawthorne
described her as our most truthful novelist, Foster, Edward Halsey. Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Twayne. 137 |
Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | In 1813 she again met de Staël
(who was visiting London) and introduced her to Elizabeth Inchbald
. Others she met after her husband's death included Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, Byron
, and Sir Walter Scott |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amelia Opie | Response was tepid in England. The Literary Gazette called this book by one of its long-time favourites a milk-and-water work, poised between Quakerism
and satire on the fashionable world, and more successful as morality than... |
Textual Features | D. H. Lawrence | Here Lawrence discusses such authors as Fenimore Cooper
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Herman Melville
, and Edgar Allan Poe
. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth
, Byron
, Coleridge
, Goethe
, Schiller
—and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger |
Education | Mary Agnes Hamilton | On holidays her father
taught his children to shoot with arrows and to play on pipes which they had made themselves, to light fires, and boys and girls alike, how to row, to swim, to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Fuller | Her father, Timothy Fuller
, was also a teacher, then a lawyer and politician. A graduate of Harvard University
, he served in both the Massachusetts senate and house of representatives, and he became a... |
Literary responses | Eliza Dunlop | Again the Sydney Herald reacted with fury. In April 1842 it accused ED
of deliberately misleading her readers as to the character of the Aboriginals, whom it said she seemed to know no better than... |
Textual Production | Lydia Maria Child | The idea came to her from reading a call by John Gorham Palfrey
for fiction to be made from early American, Puritan
history, and it was inspired by Yamoyden, 1820, a verse narrative of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Harriet Burney | Lorna J. Clark, editor of SHB
's letters, notes the abundant portrayal in her novels of dysfunctional families. Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press. lviii-lix |
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