Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe. “Preface”. Agatha, edited by John Goss.
forthcoming
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Friends, Associates | Catherine Hutton | CH
's friends included novelists Sarah Harriet Burney
and Robert Bage
, publisher Sir Richard Phillips
, Elizabeth Arnold
(whom she calls sister of Catharine Macaulay
, but who was actually the sister of Macaulay's... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | Samuel Pipe Wolferstan"s friends included Erasmus Darwin
, Anna Seward
, Thomas Gisborne
, and the novelist Robert Bage
. Of EPW
's own friends, Mary Gresley
was seriously pursued by her husband before he married Elizabeth. Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe. “Preface”. Agatha, edited by John Goss. forthcoming |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hamilton | Again EH
takes the radicals as her target. The phrase modern philosophers was in common use: the Gentleman's Magazine had turned it on Mary Wollstonecraft in reviewing her first major political work. Yet Hamilton makes... |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Eliot | Felix Holt is set around the time of the Reform Bill of 1832. It is in effect a condition of England novel, and is sometimes considered, despite its early setting, to belong to the cluster... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Thomas | Its title suggests purposeful allusion to a literary debate about the desirability of change and reform in the world. It specifically suggests allusion to Elizabeth Inchbald
's comedy Wives as They Were, and Maids as... |
Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian won for AR
the accolade of praise from Thomas James Matthias
, scholar, editor, and librarian at Buckingham Palace, who invoked the shade of Ariosto
to honour her in the same place... |
politics | Helen Craik | Allene Gregory
, author of an account of English fictional portraits of the French Revolution, describes HC
's politics as Whiggism, conservative when compared with even so mild a radical as Bage
, very liberal... |
Textual Features | Barbara Hofland | The title-page quotes Johnson
's Rambler. This novel opens with fashionable and effective abruptness: What can I do? These words, spoken in a low tone, and followed by a heart rending sigh, broke on... |
Textual Features | Isabella Kelly | The title positions the novel in a line running from Robert Bage
's Man As He Is, 1792, and William Godwin
's Caleb Williams; or, Things as They Are, 1794, to Catherine Gore |
Textual Features | Margaret Croker | This remarkable book, a novel of two generations, is unusual in every way. The first heroine has her life is ruined (but not in the predictable way) as a consequence of an early extramarital pregnancy... |
Textual Production | Catherine Hutton | CH
anonymously supplied materials for the memoir of Robert Bage
that appeared in volume 9 of Scott
's Ballantyne's Novelists' Library; catalogues list the prefatory notices as by Scott. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 1 (1846): 436 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Inchbald | Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are, a comedy by EI
, opened at Covent Garden
. The title sounds like an allusion to such radical texts as Robert Bage
's Man... |
Textual Production | Frances Jacson | This is another novel ascribed in earlier sources to Alethea Lewis
, and available through Chawton
Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. Two plot-elements, indeed, are parallelled in Lewis's life: the motherless heroine, Caroline, and the long-drawn-out... |
Textual Production | Alethea Lewis | AL
's dedication to Sir Edward Littleton
, Member of Parliament for Stafford, praises him in this capacity and as a landlord. Her subscribers include many friends or relations, as well as writers like... |
Textual Production | Annie Tinsley | AT
, as the author of Margaret; or, Prejudice at Home, published a novel with a female first-person protagonist, Women as They Are. By One of Them. The title of Women as They... |