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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Joanna Baillie | The poems present human shifts of mood and quirks of feeling. They are sensitively observed and charmingly written. The only modern poets she yet knew of to admire, JB
said later, were William Hayley
and... |
Friends, Associates | William Blake | Friends of WB
included William Hayley
(who provided his cottage at Felpham, but with whom Blake broke after their years as neighbours) and Henry Crabb Robinson
, who published a critical essay about him in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | Although HMB
was provoked to write by William Hayley
's unpleasant Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids, 1785, she gives a mixed message. This begins with an epigraph drawn from Elizabeth Hamilton |
Textual Production | Charlotte Brooke | She began her project as a money-earning one, but was later able to declare that the proceeds would go to charity. A further motive was patriotic and nationalistic: to counter the English (even, sometimes, the... |
Publishing | Charlotte Brooke | Her father had cherished a never-executed project for a history of ancient Irish literature. Ashley, Leonard R. N. et al. “Introduction”. Reliques of Irish Poetry, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, p. v - xv. vi |
Friends, Associates | William Cowper | Notable among Cowper's other friends were the Rev John Newton
(a former slave-trader who since his conversion had become a hellfire Evangelical preacher), Lady Austen
(who set him the writing task commemorated in the title... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susannah Dobson | This work abounds in quotations from Lydgate
, Spenser
, Sainte-Palaye
, William Hayley
, and others. It cites the Roman historian Tacitus
in confirmation that the chivalric system was originally Germanic. O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press. 139 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Francis | |
Textual Features | Germaine Greer | The introduction begins, It is not quite forty years since eliminating menopause was first mooted. Greer, Germaine. The Change. Penguin. 1 Greer, Germaine. The Change. Penguin. 2 |
Textual Features | Anna Miller | Apart from Anna Seward
, the volumes contain only a handful of women's names, but nearly half the contributions are given anonymously. The male poets honoured include Richard Graves
and William Hayley
. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | HM
's Sensibility (a poem addressed to Frances Boscawen
) appeared in print together with her Sacred Dramas, by March 1782. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 53 (1782): 199 Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press. 188 |
Textual Production | Amelia Opie | AO
published the heavily didactic Temper; or, Domestic Scenes: A Tale (inspired by William Hayley
's poem The Triumph of Temper, 1781); it was seven years since her previous novel. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 4th ser. 1 (1812): 336 Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 231 |
Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | She had already begun to move in fashionable circles, and became friendly with Lady Caroline Lamb
, Lady Cork
, and painters James Northcote
and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix. xxxvii |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amelia Opie | Agatha Torrington responds bravely to the suspicion that her marriage may have been bigamous. She takes her daughter away with her; the daughter, Emma Castlemain, follows in her footsteps by enduring her husband's unfaithfulness with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Clara Reeve | |
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