Elizabeth Mavor

Elizabeth Mavor , biographer of Butler and Ponsonby , classes as romantic attachments HMB 's friendships with both of them, with Smith , and with Margaret Davies . Bowdler was, says Mavor, inclined to adopt...

Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward , Henrietta Maria Bowdler (who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB as her veillard [sic] or old...

LEB 's funeral, of almost royal magnificence, was attended by a throng of distinguished mourners, and fully reported in the papers. She was also intensely mourned by ordinary people of the village. Both ladies...

Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton , and Harriet Pigott therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby . They have been published in several selections: by Mrs G. H. [Eva Mary] Bell

Elizabeth Mavor enumerates the correspondence (not without an air of condescension) thus: routine letters to tradesmen, letters literary, letters politico-religio, letters sentimental, coquetto-patronising, litigious, formal and insulting.

Among many less formal honours during the ladies' lifetimes, the most extraordinary was LEB 's award of a French, ancien régime, military medal: the Croix St Louis. It is shown in a famous portrait of...

Penruddock 's version of their story sets their elopement in the middle of a ball, and gives them two exciting years in London; Colette and de Beauvoir take a triumphalist view of their assumed lesbianism...

The Captain's Wife, The South American Journals of Maria Graham 1821-23, edited by Elizabeth Mavor , 1993, reproduces about one-third of MC 's accounts of Brazil and Chile. Mavor calls the Brazilian and...

Her editor Elizabeth Mavor , however, prints a late poem (which MC herself called jingling doggerel), written for a family magazine produced by some young nephews and nieces, which is anything but sapless in...

Editor Elizabeth Mavor remarks that MC 's South American journals are now becoming recognized as giving . . . a unique and important insight into the independence struggles of these countries.

Later reprints testified to ongoing interest in FK 's memoirs. An 1891 edition was reprinted (two volumes in one) with two portraits engraved by J. G. Stodart in 1972. In 1972 an edition brought...

AL 's diary is a testament to the versatility of a single individual. As well as recording with bare-faced frankness her sexual encounters and such other incidents as making water when alone in a stage-coach...