Thomas Percy

She visited the aged Thomas Percy at Dromore in County Down, Northern Ireland, in 1810.

Early in the new century JW vigorously defended her activities as an author against the criticism that her support of female domesticity accorded ill with her own high visibility in the public sphere. The grounds...

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...

With this work appeared AS 's Ode to the Sun. Richard Lovell Edgeworth later categorically alleged that the best passages in the elegy were in fact written by Erasmus Darwin , and this story...

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...

The writer Jane West , replying to heavy condemnation of AS from Thomas Percy , offered a model of candid judgement. She agreed that Seward's prose style was not English but insisted that her poetry...

Percy vigorously supported her in the conservative British Critic.

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

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

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.

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...

JW developed correspondences with Sarah Trimmer and Bishop Thomas Percy .

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...

AW corresponded with Ann Percy , who, with her husband, the clergyman and ballad-collector Thomas Percy , was a good friend. She visited their home in 1764. Other friends, perhaps her closest, were single women...

Among her friends were Martha Bridgen (daughter of Samuel Richardson ), Thomas Percy , and Joseph Cooper Walker (who was also a good friend to other women writers from around the British Isles: to...