Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1809.
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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... |
Education | Elizabeth Smith | At three years old ES
loved books and at four she could read extremely well. Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1809. 215-6 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Pearson | The poem picked out by the Critical Review as the principal one, occupying fourteen pages, is entitled Lines found on the Stairs of the Tour de la Chapelle of the Bastile. These lines, powerful... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Bannerman | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | This novel is well supplied with quotations: Macpherson
's Ossian
on the title-page and Robert Blair
(The Grave) to open the first volume, with Shakespeare
and Milton
for the succeeding volumes. It opens... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Rouviere Mosse | The title-page quotes Dryden
. The story opens in Scotland, twenty miles from Glasgow, with the humble clergyman Dr Woodville giving reluctant permission for his unsophisticated young daughter, Anna, to attend a charity ball... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Francis | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Smith | That is, she took Ossian
as a model for a lament for her own chosen ancient hero. The din of war is drowned by one more great and more terrific sound; / A sound high... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Regina Maria Roche | This novel claims relationship with Macpherson
's Ossian through quotations appearing on its title-page and heading its chapters. An element of terror derives from Matthew Gregory Lewis
's notorious The Monk, 1796. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Porter | The novel opens: One tempestuous night in the October of 1793, a carriage stopped at the door of a solitary old house on the borders of the Lake of Killarney. Porter, Anna Maria. The Lake of Killarney. T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804, 3 vols. 1: 1 |
Literary responses | Anne Grant | Letters from the Mountains was not noticed in the Edinburgh Review, an omission which Grant attributed to gender prejudice. Perkins, Pamela. “Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy”. Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850, edited by Emma Clery et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, pp. 29-43. 32 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | The work has a frontispiece showing the castle of Dierenstein, built on a rocky crag.Dedicating it to the Austrian eagle, she thanks it for sheltering a dove [herself] flying from birds of prey... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Brooke | |
Textual Features | Charlotte Brooke | Her preface to the whole volume expresses regret, probably purely conventional, that her comparatively feeble hand cannot wield the pen of learning and antiquity. Brooke, Charlotte. Reliques of Irish Poetry. George Bonham, 1789. iii |
Textual Features | Charlotte Dacre | Her titles provide a brief guide to romantic sensibility: the macabre (Death and the Lady, The Skeleton Priest, and The Dying Lover, written for a friend whose amiable young man Dacre, Charlotte. Hours of Solitude. Printed by D. N. Shury, for Hughes and Ridgeway, 1805, 2 vols. 123 |
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