On 11 May 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson
recorded in his diary meeting JB
and other women writers on a visit to Miss Benjers (Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
). In his account of this pleasant evening...
Literary responses
Anna Brownell Jameson
Characteristics of Women was well received as a work of Shakespeare
criticism: reviewers and literary critics placed it alongside the work of Hazlitt
, Coleridge
, and Schlegel
.
Desmet, Christy. “’Intercepting the Dew-Drop’: Female Readers and Readings in Anna Jameson’s Shakespearean Criticism”. Women’s Re-Visions of Shakespeare, edited by Marianne Novy, University of Illinois Press, 1990, pp. 41-57.
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Textual Features
Penelope Fitzgerald
In life her hero (whose actual name was Friedrich Leopold, or Fritz, von Hardenberg) was a friend of Schiller
and Schlegel
, and died in 1801 before the age of thirty, having just published his...
Timeline
1798-1800: August Wilhelm and Friedrich von Schlegel...
Writing climate item
1798-1800
August Wilhelm
and Friedrich von Schlegel
published their periodical Das Athenäum, the manifesto of the German Romantic movement.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Texts
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von, and Friedrich von Schlegel. Das Athenäum.