Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Thomas Percy
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Standard Name: Percy, Thomas
Used Form: Bishop Percy
Connections
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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... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Williams | |
Friends, Associates | Jane West | |
Travel | Jane West | She visited the aged Thomas Percy
at Dromore in County Down, Northern Ireland, in 1810. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Jane West | 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... |
Literary responses | Jane West | Percy
vigorously supported her in the conservative British Critic. |
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 |
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... |
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. 178 |
Textual Production | Anna Seward | 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... |
Reception | Anna Seward | |
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. xviii Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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... |
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... |
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 |
Timeline
12 February 1765: Thomas Percy published his edited Reliques...
Writing climate item
12 February 1765
Thomas Percy
published his edited Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, a rediscovery of poems from the middle ages. He dedicated it to the Duchess of Northumberland
, daughter of the poet and letter-writer Lady Hertford
.
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