Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors XVI: Hannah Cowley 1743-1809”. The Book Collector, Vol.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Hervey | In 1789 EH
, living at Brussels, was said to be the mistress of the poet and radical Robert Merry
. The story went that he was thinking of marrying her, but in fact... |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | That year HMW
was introduced by Dr John Moore
to Burns
, with whom she then corresponded. She met Samuel Rogers
(in November 1787), Hester Lynch Piozzi
, and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. The year... |
Friends, Associates | Leah Sumbel | Through Topham she became friendly with Frederick Reynolds
(who became her lover and wrote of her in his Life and Times, published a few years before her death) and Robert Merry
, and through... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hervey | Hester Piozzi
referred all this as common knowledge when she met EH
. Hervey remained a friend of Merry
after his marriage and perhaps shared his acquaintance with the Irish patriot Lord Edward Fitzgerald
... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Wentworth Morton | In this volume Lines Addressed to the inimitable Author of the Poems under the signature of Della Crusca and others addressed to Alfred (who may have been her fellow-poet and warm admirer Robert Treat Payne, Jr |
Literary responses | Anne Damer | AD
's art and her gender made her a kind of tourist attraction. She complained of being teazed and tired to death with the number of persons coming to see her work, and making crass... |
Publishing | Hannah Cowley | HC
's poems to Della Crusca (Robert Merry
), written as Anna Matilda, appeared in Edward Topham
's The World, or Fashionable Advertiser, interspersed with Merry's replies. Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors XVI: Hannah Cowley 1743-1809”. The Book Collector, Vol. 7 , 1958, pp. 68-76. 75 |
Publishing | Mary Robinson | MR
began her poetical correspondence with Robert Merry
, who signed himself Leonardo. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994. xii |
Textual Features | Leah Sumbel | Another of its features was the exchange of Della Cruscan verse between Robert Merry
and Hannah Cowley
, and because of Merry's friendship with Hester Lynch Piozzi
, Piozzi's movements were advertised in The World. Jenkins, Annibel. “The World and All the People in It: London, 1787-1789”. Boundaries, Margins and Frames: Ways of Seeing and Knowing the Eighteenth Century: Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS) Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, 1 Mar. 2002. |
Textual Production | Leah Sumbel | It is often said (for instance by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) that Topham's main aim in this venture was to boost her career. The World was known for featuring personal attacks on... |
Textual Production | Mary Robinson | MR
, as Laura Maria, published Ainsi va le Monde. A Poem, an item of her poetical correspondence Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols. 7: 331 Close, Anne. “Into the Public: The Sexual Heroine in Eliza Fenwicks Secresy and Mary Robinsons The Natural DaughterEighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 17 , No. 1, Oct. 2004, pp. 35-52. 38 |
Textual Production | Hester Lynch Piozzi | HLP
, while living in Florence, contributed poems to and wrote a preface for a Della Cruscan publication: The Florence Miscellany. The leading light in this group was Robert Merry
. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press, 1987. 250-1 |
Textual Production | Sarah Wentworth Morton | She found this story in a recent issue of the American Museum, where it was set in Canada. American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. |
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