Gary Kelly

A fuller title is A Description of Millenium Hall, and the Country Adjacent; Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants, And such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections . . . . The author is described as...

EM occupies volume one of Pickering and Chatto 's Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-1790 (general editor Gary Kelly , published in 1999), with the Essay on Shakespear, the published dialogues of...

In the year of her Letter to a New-Married Lady, HMC said she published in order to appease that uneasy sense of helplessness and insignificancy in society, which has often depressed and afflicted me...

Charoba, offered as a specimen of romance, purports to be the translation of an Arabian tale.Gary Kelly notes in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography how The Progress of Romance, which...

She wrote it while a member of the Marquess of Abercorn ''s household, where she read it aloud in the evenings to less than informed criticism. As before, she and Phillips could not agree on...

It represents the erotic gothic in Gary Kelly 's 6-volume Pickering and Chatto collection Varieties of Female Gothic.

The preface is dated in December 1809 at Long Ditton in Surrey—a country retirement which, she said, turned her thoughts back to childhood memories. This was one inspiration for the book, and another was...

Present-day critics like Stuart Curran think highly of CT as a poet. Rhoda Zuk in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography praises her as a feminist and a rational moralist, and argues that the dismissal...

FH was slow to register on the radar of recuperative feminist critics. Cora Kaplan was an early exception in her anthology Salt and Bitter and Good, 1975.Margaret Homans in her early attempt to...

US art critic and author Elizabeth Robins Pennell , at the very beginning of her career, published at Boston her Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (which a modern critic, Gary Kelly , singles out as the...

This poem, in the view of Gary Kelly , articulates a liberal reformist programme that, by suggesting that the acquisition and exhibition of the marbles by Britain would place the artistic expression of Athenian republican...

The story is set in late feudal times, and the action carried by male characters, while women are insignificant. Nevertheless several of its themes, like unjust exclusion from succession or inheritance, lend themselves readily to...

MW structured her book in the popular form of interaction between children and a female pedagogue, here Mrs Mason, a distant relative who takes on the education of two girls out of compassion for the...

Gary Kelly speculates that Felicia Browne may have been the translator (signing F. B.) of Italian patriot and political exile Ugo Foscolo 's autobiographical novel Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis in 1812.

The Recess is dedicated to Sir John Eliot, Elliot, or Elliott , a Scottish physician who was successful and popular in London. (His wife, Grace, née Dalrymple , had left him for another man, and...