Horace Smith

Standard Name: Smith, Horace

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Maria Abdy
MA 's maternal uncles, James and Horace Smith , who were influential in her early life, wrote Rejected Addresses, 1812.
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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Fictionalization Harriet Martineau
Mary Russell Mitford wrote disapprovingly of HM 's claims: I see no good in these experiments.
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: 281
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna 's pamphlet Mesmerism: A Letter to Miss Martineau, argued that if the account...
Friends, Associates Mary Shelley
MS also met the leading women writers of her later years: Jane Porter , Catherine Gore , Caroline Norton , and LEL . She was friendly, too, with Thomas Moore , Prosper Mérimée , Washington Irving
Publishing Mary Shelley
The firm of John Murray declined to publish Frankenstein or Modern Prometheus, which had been offered to them through H[orace] (or Horatio) Smith , a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley , the author 's husband.
Sutherland, Kathryn. “Jane Austen’s Dealings with John Murray and his Firm”. Review of English Studies, Vol.
52
, 31 Mar. 2012.
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Reception Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Professionally, Morgan was a notable success. She was a canny businesswoman, never afraid to assert herself against an established publisher or seek out a new one. This paid off in a remarkable level of earnings...
Reception Maria Abdy
This popular poem is one of MA 's humorous pieces, which according to critic Paula R. Feldman were her most imaginative and successful
Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
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compositions. Although some of her devotional verse has been viewed as...
Textual Features Mary Shelley
Trelawny's publisher required the excision of indecent passages unsuitable for female readers: the manuscript contained several brothel scenes and an account of the narrator being sexually abused at the age of twelve. Trelawny was afraid...
Textual Production Elizabeth Isabella Spence
In an AdvertisementEIS claimed that she wrote this book before the appearance (in 1826) of two other historical novels about the Civil War period, Brambletye House by Horace Smith and Woodstock by Sir Walter Scott
Textual Production Mary Shelley
Nora Crook 's recent discovery in Essex Record Office of thirteen letters from MS to Horace Smith and his daughter Eliza was published in 2013 in the Keats-Shelley Journal. The letters ended up in...
Travel Mary Shelley
She had been in Brighton (where Horace Smith lived with his family) the previous winter, when she was ill, and was to return there more frequently after the London to Brighton railway opened in 1841...

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