Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
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Education | Dora Sigerson | Irish critic and nationalist John O'Leary
played a particularly significant role in DS
's development as a poet; he helped teach her about poetics, to compensate for her lack of formal training. He gave her... |
Education | Anne Marsh | At probably four years old AM
read Anna Letitia Barbauld
's Lessons for Children (a composite title for her various books for the very young). With her reader Anne Caldwell, Barbauld achieved her aim of... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Seward | Ashmun states clearly that the great love and passion of [Seward's] life was for John Saville
, Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 178 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Williams | |
Friends, Associates | Jane West | JW
developed correspondences with Sarah Trimmer
and Bishop Thomas Percy
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
Friends, Associates | Clara Reeve | Among her friends were Martha Bridgen
(daughter of Samuel Richardson
), Thomas Percy
, and Joseph Cooper Walker Trainer, James, and Clara Reeve. “Introduction”. The Old English Baron, Oxford University Press, 1977. xviii Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Brooke | Apart from Joseph C. Walker
, the early friend who became the first person to publish her, CB
carried on an amicable correspondence with Thomas Percy
, whose project of conserving English ballads parallelled her... |
Health | Anna Williams | According to Thomas Percy
, AW
was about twenty when her sight began to be affected by cataracts, though at this date she was still able to read and to sew. She became totally blind... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane West | JW
's preface invokes Shakespeare
, Virgil
, Homer
, and Sir Walter Scott
(she later adds Thomas Percy
) as more acceptable exemplars for romance than either the French romances (implicitly those of Madeleine de Scudéry |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Craik | The title-page quotes Virgil
. The preface relates how while staying with a friend in the north the author discovered an ancient manuscript, much torn and defaced in a trunk in a garret. Craik, Helen. Henry of Northumberland. William Lane, 1800, 3 vols. 1: xi |
Literary responses | Jane West | Percy
vigorously supported her in the conservative British Critic. |
Literary responses | Anna Gordon | William Tytler
was followed by many more in his interest in AG
's ballads. His son Alexander Fraser Tytler (Lord Woodhouselee)
, Scott
, Jamieson
, Joseph Ritson
, M. G. Monk Lewis
, Robert Anderson |
Reception | Anna Seward | |
Textual Features | Jane Harvey | The contents include descriptive and melancholy sonnets, satire, autobiography, and politics (including a poem on the horrors of slavery, addressed to William Wilberforce
, and another about the sorrow of a woman whose lover has... |
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