EH
worked as a governess at Clifton near Bristol, in the family of Charles Abraham Elton
, a poet whose work she already admired.
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945.
220, 222-3
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Ham
It was dedicated to the poet Margaret Holford Hodson
(who was at this time seriously ill), and was apparently published by August.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 203
Joanna Baillie's editor Judith Bailey Slagle
dates Baillie's letter about this...
Literary Setting
Mary Bryan
MB
's preface repeats an opinion she had already voiced in letters to Scott
: that the dominance of his novels had narrowed the opportunities for others. Its village setting, in and around Sidmouth on...
Textual Production
Mary Bryan
Another adviser was apparently the Bristol writer Charles Abraham Elton
(who also employed Elizabeth Ham
as a governess in his family and helped her revise her longest poem for publication). He suggested that Bryan might...