Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger

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Standard Name: Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy
Birth Name: Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Pseudonym: E. Benger
Indexed Name: Elizabeth Ogilvie Benger
Used Form: Miss Benger
EOB , a writer of the Romantic period, remains best-known for her precocious yet astonishingly mature Female Geniad (a poem celebrating women writers); but her other works in poetry, fiction, history, and memoirs show a steady concern with women's history and women's tradition which is almost equally remarkable.

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Literary responses Elizabeth Smith
Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger paid tribute to Smith's work in her own Klopstock translation, 1812. The old Dictionary of National Biography delivered a gibe which it then apparently retracted: Miss Smith's powers of memory and of...
Literary responses Susannah Dobson
The Critical began its notice by praising the extensive research of the original and by condemning its prolixity, a fault now remedied by SD , who, it says, has told Petrarch's story in a manner...
Literary responses Sarah Trimmer
ST 's work made a great impact. She was one of the twenty-four most-reviewed women writers of 1789-90.
Hawkins, Ann R., and Stephanie Eckroth, editors. Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Vol. 3 vols., Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011–2013, 3 vols.
The young Elizabeth Benger in her Female Geniad, 1791, called ST a successor to Dorothy, Lady Pakington
Literary responses Anne-Thérèse de Lambert
Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger admired this work.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
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Reception Mariana Starke
This play was printed just in time for Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger to add a mention of it to The Female Geniad, published by June this year. At this early stage of MS 's career...
Textual Features Susanna Watts
The many pictures in the volume include diagrams of the hold of a slave ship, I & Dash my Dog (a sketch), and prints of Hester Mulso Chapone , Lady Rachel Russell (with a copy...
Textual Production Carola Oman
CO issued her next historical biography, Elizabeth of Bohemia, about the Scottish-born Electress Palatine who was a great patron and a force in European politics during the seventeenth century.
Elizabeth Hamilton had planned...
Textual Production Jane Porter
JP published in The Literary MagnetSome Particulars Respecting the Life and Character of the Late Miss Benger, a writer with whom she had enjoyed a long and close friendship.
McLean, Thomas. “Jane Porter’s Later Works, 1825–1846”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 June 2009– 2024, pp. 45-62.
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Textual Production Lucy Aikin
LA memoir of Anna Letitia Barbauld , in her edition of Barbauld's Works, June 1825, represents a well-planned if largely unsuccessful attempt to establish and preserve Barbauld's reputation after systemic attack by political conservatives...
Textual Production Elizabeth Hamilton
Early in her life EHhad recourse to the pen by stealth.
Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818, 2 vols.
1: 51-2
She produced a Highland travel journal which her aunt showed to people and which was then published in a magazine, and...
Textual Production Elizabeth Hamilton
It was published by the next month,
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
n. ser. 17: 241
with her name (as Eliza Hamilton). Elizabeth Benger later wrote (perhaps protectively) that EH was only reluctantly persuaded to put her name on...
Textual Production Elizabeth Hamilton
This was published at Bath and London. EH did serious historical research for this book, reading all the Roman history she could find in English and even commissioning translations.
There was already women's work...
Textual Production Elizabeth Hamilton
Elizabeth Benger published her Memoirs of EH , including much of Hamilton's previously unpublished work, by May 1818. The full title was Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton, with a Selection from Her Correspondence...
Textual Production Anne Steele
This poem stands second in the manuscript volume Poems by Mary Steele in her youth, which is among her papers, now STE 5/5 in the Angus Library at Regent's Park College, Oxford University ...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Josepha Hale
SJH does in the main a fine job in her coverage of British women writers, having something to say even about the extremely obscure. Dorothea Primrose Campbell , for instance (who was living in poverty...

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