James Raven

Bibliographer James Raven notes a crescendo in novelistic echoes of FB 's works during the 1780s. Burney's brother Charles , for instance, noted borrowings from both Evelina and Cecilia in his review for the Monthly...

Olivia was fairly favourably noticed by the Critical Review in December 1786: more, however, for the introduction and professed intention than for the commonplace story.

Amont recent critics by contrast, James Raven departs from eighteenth-century opinion in judging that it was painfully clear that Gibbes had never been to India, while Felicity Nussbaum argues that Gibbes's heroine in this...

Literary historian James Raven , who admires AG 's novels, finds Creation, A Poemappalling.

This unusual approach to social class seemed quite acceptable to contemporary reviewers. AG was praised in particular by the Town and Country Magazine. Her works were, however, quickly forgotten, and her readers had...

The Critical Review once again praised the style and characters. It judged the novel too long and its plot too complicated, but that the whole was certainly superior to the majority of flimsy publications of...

AG 's known publications comprise eighteenth-century novels of an unusually bourgeois tendency, and a long nineteenth-century poem. She wrote because she needed money. Bibliographer James Raven points out that some of her characters change their...

MM was a minor eighteenth-century sentimental novelist. Her literary career was bound up with that of her sister, and the account reflected in standard reference books has rendered her nearly invisible by assimilating a number...

The future RMR published her second novel, The Maid of the Hamlet, under her birth name (though she was in fact already married) and dedicated to the remarkable Duchess of Leinster .

After Fanny drops Charles for somebody of her own class, his father's death brings him the revelation that he is illegitimate: he must be reduced to the necessity of living by his industry!

Bibliographer James Raven suggests that the gothic accoutrements here seem rather in tongue-in-cheek, somewhat in the manner of Horace Walpole 's The Castle of Otranto. The family situation of the hero seems transcribed...

The first novel attributed to Foster (as E.M.F.) was published in 1795 with the Minerva Press , which also published (or republished) seven other novels linked to her between 1798 and 1801. The attribution...

JW published anonymously (as a Lady) with Hookham the first two volumes of her first novel, The Twin Sisters; or, the Effects of Education.

SW 's perhaps most interesting translation as well as the most obscure, The Wonderful Travels of Prince Fan-Feredin, in the Country of Arcadia, was published at Dublin.

The second volume closes with advertisements for works forthcoming by subscription, including Emily Frederick Clark 's Ianthé, said to be then in the press. A number of reference sources list Calaf...