Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, 3rd ed., Macmillan, 1872, 2 vols.
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Eliza Fenwick
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Standard Name: Fenwick, Eliza
Birth Name: Eliza Jaco
Married Name: Eliza Fenwick
Pseudonym: A Woman
Pseudonym: E. F.
Pseudonym: the Rev. David Blair
EF
, now known (after long obscurity) for her single, remarkable surviving epistolary novel of the radical school of the 1790s, also wrote characterful children's books and extremely vivid letters which extend several decades into the nineteenth century. Her second adult novel never materialised.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Having already praised many contemporary women writers in print, EOB
was now able to meet them. The move to London was accomplished principally through the zealous friendship of Miss Sarah Wesley
, who had already... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | The guests included Joanna Baillie
, Jane Porter
(both mentioned as celebrities) and Eliza Fenwick
. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Hays | MH
's preface explains her intention of examining the power of the passions in action, on the model of Godwin
's Caleb Williams. She also compliments Ann Radcliffe
. She defends the worth of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Ham | This publication, written in charming verses, makes the parts of speech perform appropriate functions. The articles, A and The, stand at the door. Nouns march in. The Interjection has the last word(s): Her surprise was... |
| Literary responses | Mary Robinson | The Critical Review said that from the first page it had expected something superior, but had been disappointed: even a few pieces of elegant poetry Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 2nd ser. 28 (1799): 477 |
| Occupation | Mary Hays | At Tansor near Oundle she again worked as a teacher; Eliza Fenwick
had been advising her (since the cost of living as a boarder was so high) to find a live-in position looking after a... |
| Occupation | William Godwin | The imprint M. J. Godwin and Company was launched the following year. The business flourished, becoming almost a literary salon like that of Joseph Johnson
: visitors included Germaine de Staël
. It remained, however... |
| Occupation | William Godwin | This was just after Eliza Fenwick
left their employ. |
| Publishing | Susanna Watts | |
| Publishing | Mary Robinson | The Morning Post carried MR
's Lines Addressed to a Beautiful Infant Inscribed to Mrs Fenwick. Close, Anne. “Into the Public: The Sexual Heroine in Eliza Fenwicks Secresy and Mary Robinsons The Natural DaughterEighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 17 , No. 1, Oct. 2004, pp. 35-52. 37-8 |
| Reception | Adelaide O'Keeffe | The Monthly Review was on the whole complimentary. It judged the novel to be original and entertaining, though it complained of a few Hibernicisms and grammatical errors. It concentrated, oddly, on the Don Zulvago plot... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Trimmer | In addition to Catharine Cappe
's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
, the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as... |
| Textual Features | Mary Ann Browne | The title-poem is a lengthy, often highly effective narrative about Ignatia's experience of learning, love, marriage, motherhood, loss, and abandonment. Ignatia's mother is Palestinian, and after the death of both her parents she experiments with... |
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