Other relations included her maternal great-grandfather, Dr Thomas Kingsbury, who was President of the Royal College of Physicians
and physician to Jonathan Swift
. The gothic novelist Charles Robert Maturin
, best known for Melmoth...
Intertextuality and Influence
Christina Rossetti
Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson
and Wordsworth
; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray
and Crabbe
, and wrote several poems inspired...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Meanwhile the vogue for The Wild Irish Girl was immense: Dublin ladies were wearing scarlet cloaks and golden bodkins, as Glorvina and as Owenson did.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
71-2
She became (and remained more or less all her...
Textual Production
Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre
In March 1819 Joanna Baillie
had described her as Still hankering after the Drama, but fearful & diffident of herself.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
2: 1191
Dacre's prefatory comments play down her ambition and even her skill, but she...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sarah Green
This preface is headed by two Latin words (one with a faulty grammatical ending) from Ovid
's description of chaos. SG
slams both male and female novelists, chiefly authors of gothic or horrid novels and...
Timeline
Later 1820: Charles Robert Maturin published his Melmoth...
Writing climate item
Later 1820
Charles Robert Maturin
published his Melmoth the Wanderer, a gothic novel which recalls the medieval legend of the Wandering Jew.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.