James Beattie

She was also taught, perhaps between schools, by her father. By the age of eleven she had devoured the poetry of the British Classics from Chaucer to Beattie , as well as Burns ,...

EM was a family friend of Dr John Gregory (author of A Father's Legacy to His Daughters and his daughter Dorothea. In the 1760s they visited Scotland together, and John Gregory introduced EM to two...

When very young, too young to appreciate them (though she remembered Campbell well), she was entertained in the houses of two eminent men, Dr James Beattie and Dr George Campbell .

Among Anne's personal friends and guests at her gatherings were Elizabeth Carter , Mary Delany , Elizabeth Montagu , Hester Thrale , her niece by marriage Joanna Baillie (whom she first met when Baillie came...

The title-page quotes James Beattie and Shakespeare . For dedication, five stanzas from Longfellow addressed to absent friends invoke again members of the Eighth Hussars . FID 's preface declares her intention of reporting the...

Influences on AR 's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley 's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777.AR probably helped to produce the fashion for literary quotation...

The title-page quotes James Beattie . The action moves further afield than in JH 's previous works, to such places as London, Hampstead, and Cambridge. JH here comes close to depicting a...

The work is headed with a motto: Feeling, not genius, prompts the lay, and a stanza from James Beattie 's The Minstrel. Contents include both Nova Scotia and Inscription for a temple, in a...

Chapters are headed with a lavish array of quotations. Among the better-known authors are Ariosto (in the original), Shakespeare , Drayton , Milton , Pope (on the title-page), Young , Gray , Collins , Johnson

This was CT 's greatest success. The young George Farquhar much admired it; it was even praised by Charles Gildon . Her association with Congreve, however, brought CT (together with Mary Pix) some hostile...

She was, however, more than any other woman writer, an important influence on the Bluestockings and their thinking about morality, religion, and gender.Catherine Talbot , for one, strongly agreed with Birch in an...

Samuel Johnson was eager to sit for her, and did so on three occasions: in March 1775, in June 1780, and in summer 1783. He may have been sitting for her on the day before...

The title-page quotes Pope , who also (with his Messiah) stands first among the contents. Some pieces are unascribed; others are by Byron (The Isles of Greece), Jane Taylor (The Squire's...

For some reason the publisher, the Minerva Press , confused Eva of Cambria (whose title-page said 1811) with another novel of that year by Emma Parker . The press placed on Eva of Cambria's...

Attribution to SSW of original short fiction is likely to be dubious: it may be only that her source has not yet been discovered. However, she did claim to have written for herself in this...