Her publisher, Charles Dilly
, praised the work and its philanthropic author for animated warmth so honestly avowed.
Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009.
195
Horace Walpole
wrote: The poor Arcadian patroness does not spell one word of French or Italian...
Timeline
19 February 1797: Publisher James Dodsley (much younger brother...
Writing climate item
19 February 1797
Publisher James Dodsley
(much younger brother of Robert
) died worth over £60,000; Charles Dilly
, who died ten years later, left about the same.
Dodsley, Robert. The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley 1733-1764. Editor Tierney, James E., Cambridge University Press, 1988.
508
Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
134
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
