Critic Margaret Doody
identifies Emily's poem The Sea-Nymph as a response to Anna Seward
's Song of the Fairies to the Sea-nymphs, while Rictor Norton
notes that the incident in which Emily hears gondoliers...
Literary responses
Marina Warner
In the New York Times Book ReviewUrsula K. Le Guin voiced admiration of Warner's demonstratiing contemporary uses and dimensions of fiction, myth, the imagination, and found the book delightful reading all the way.
qtd. in
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes.
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Texts
Grundy, Isobel. “’A Novel in a Series of Letters by a Lady’: Richardson and some Richardsonian Novels”. Samuel Richardson: Tercentenary Essays, edited by Margaret Anne Doody and Peter Sabor, Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 223-36.
Burney, Frances. Cecilia. Editors Sabor, Peter and Margaret Anne Doody, Oxford World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Doody, Margaret Anne. “Sensuousness in the Poetry of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 3-32.