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Publishing | Anna Seward | |
Friends, Associates | Anna Seward | Her relationship with the fashionable poet and author William Hayley
was another in which each party flattered the other. She kept up with Hayley's wife, Eliza
(who was also a writer, less ambitious and less... |
Leisure and Society | Anna Seward | AS
was several times painted by George Romney
. One portrait, in fashionable garb, belonged to her father. Another was treasured by William Hayley
, then vanished from sight. A century later it was found... |
Literary responses | Anna Seward | The Critical thought this even better than AS
's Elegy on Captain Cook: one of the most pleasing little poems which we ever perused. It doubted the wisdom, however, of printing the letters. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 51 (1781): 230-2 |
Textual Features | Anna Seward | From the first (in a letter to William Hayley
about her visit) AS
had seen the noise, fire, and steam associated with iron-producing (often hailed at this period as aesthetically sublime) as an intrusion in... |
Textual Production | Mary Scott | Anna Seward was eagerly awaiting the appearance of this poem in April. Seward, Anna. Letters of Anna Seward. Editor Constable, Archibald, Vol. 6 vols. , A. Constable. 2: 89 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Clara Reeve | |
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 | 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 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
. |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Francis | |
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 |
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