Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
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Author summary | Anna Hume | AH
was a Scotswoman who during the earlier seventeenth century edited work by her father, David Hume of Godscroft
, for publication and herself translated Petrarch
into English verse. |
Publishing | Maria Callcott | She may have translated into English parts of the Essays on Petrarch which Ugo Foscolo
privately published (in only sixteen copies) through Bentley
on 1 May 1821 after being outraged by changes made in translation... |
Publishing | Anna Hume | Evan Tyler
, the King's Printer at Edinburgh, issued, with her name, AH
's The Triumphs of Love: Chastitie: Death: Translated out of Petrarch. The date comes from George Thomason
's annotation. Since... |
Reception | Sarah Lewis | SL
's eclipse into relative obscurity is attributable to a number of factors, and raises the question to what degree she deserved the praise she received. One critic remarks that her fame . .... |
Textual Features | Anne Evans | Her sonnets (always Petrarch
an in form) are similarly melancholy. Here she balances the inevitability of earthly suffering with the insufficiency of many earthly goals: why must one live and labour and wax old /... |
Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | This time MRM
's setting was fourteenth-century Rome. Rienzi was a friend of Petrarch
. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols. 2: 31 |
Textual Features | Mary Charlton | MC
's targets are the same as those of Jane Austen
's juvenilia: the motifs and the hyperbole of sentimental and gothic novels. It is not her heroine but her heroine's mother who is led... |
Textual Features | Mary Robinson | The poems include an Ode to Genius (which implicitly claims that status), Petrarch
to Laura (which woos a woman in a male voice), and a piece responding to Hannah Cowley
's expression of disbelief that... |
Textual Features | Anna Jane Vardill | AJV
translates from Sappho
, Anacreon
, Alcæus
, Theocritus
, Horace
, and more recent poets: Petrarch
and Camoens
. She includes several charity poems: the one already published in aid of the Refuge for the Destitute |
Textual Features | Catherine Talbot | It concludes that her heart will forever conceal that it drags in reasons Spite / an Heavy, Hopeless Chain. qtd. in Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990. 219 |
Textual Features | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | The plays included are four: Gonzalvo of Cordova, Pedarias, Ina, and Xarifa. A Tragic Drama. Dacre restored the cuts made to Ina for staging, including the original version of the ending... |
Textual Features | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | |
Textual Production | Mona Caird | One of MC
's best-known novels appeared: The Daughters of Danaus (the first novel among the selection mentioned in the Times after her death, and reprinted by the Feminist Press
in 1989). In Greek mythology... |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | In 1856, CR
published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York. Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne, 1996. 100 Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995. 176-9 |
Textual Production | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | In another collaborative venture, ENC
joined with her brother |
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