Edward W. Pitcher
reads a poem by EG
entitled Soliloquy (published in May 1783) as suggesting that she and her husband had decided to run a celibate marriage in order to have no more children...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Griffith
Pitcher
calls her contributions to the Westminster, and to other periodicals, a substantial body of very interesting work.
names
Hester Mulso Chapone
BirthName: Hester Mulso
Though she published nothing in her birth-name, she exerted literary influence under this name as a member of Richardson
's circle.
RR
seems to have been a teacher. Edward W. Pitcher
suggests that when she had a serial running in The Lady's Magazine she sometimes allowed her students to contribute, so that individual instalments appear under...
Publishing
Hester Mulso Chapone
Scholar Edward W. Pitcher
argues that HMC
, writing as G., contributed pieces with titles like Moral Tale and True Story to The Universal Magazine during 1774-75, since The Rational Pair (which the magazine...
Publishing
Hannah Webster Foster
The year after her youngest child was born, HWF
, as a Lady of Massachusetts, published the highly sentimental The Coquette, her most successful novel, at Boston, Massachusetts.
Scholar Edward W. Pitcher
Publishing
Elizabeth Griffith
All but the two final stories were collected, probably by her, in Novellettes, 1780.
Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors XXII: Elizabeth Griffith 1727-1793”. The Book Collector, Vol.
8
, 1959, pp. 418-24.
424
Bibliographer Edward W. Pitcher
believes that EG
contributed under various pseudonyms to the Westminster, and that her contributions...
Publishing
Hannah More
Of these On Envy (July 1777) was plagiarised by the New London Magazine as by G.W. Bibliographer Edward Pitcher
also suspects More of being an unsigned contributor to the Universal Magazine of tales translated from...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Gilding
Edward Pitcher
describes these poems, the last identified from her pen, printed and apparently written soon after childbirth, as gloomy in tone.
Pitcher, Edward W. Woman’s Wit. Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
311
The Desire seems to embrace, for a woman, the kind of obscurity...
Textual Production
Mariana Starke
If this is so, it was Starke's earliest publication; she was in her mid-twenties. An obituary of Thomas published in the Gentleman's Magazine, March 1831, claims that these two women translated Genlis's very popular...
Textual Production
Anna Maria Porter
While still in her teens, AMP
published verse in several journals: her Civil Liberty appeared this month in James Harrison
's Pocket Magazine, as by A. P—r.
This information came from bibliographer Edward Pitcher
.
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Texts
Pitcher, Edward W., and Isobel Grundy. Conversations about ongoing research with Isobel Grundy. 2002.
Pitcher, Edward W. “Eliza Gilding (Mrs. Daniel Turner): Some Facts and Inferences”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, Vol.
12
, No. 1, pp. 6-22.
Pitcher, Edward W., and Isobel Grundy. Email about ongoing research to Isobel Grundy.
Pitcher, Edward W. Email to Isobel Grundy about Susanna Pearson.
Pitcher, Edward W. Fiction in American Magazines Before 1800. Union College Press, 1993, http://U of A, Ruth N.
Pitcher, Edward W., and Isobel Grundy. Letter about Hannah More to Isobel Grundy.
Pitcher, Edward W. “Maria Susanna Cooper (1738–1807): The Exemplary Mother from Norfolk”. American Notes and Queries, Vol.
17
, No. 3, 1978, pp. 35-6.
Pitcher, Edward W. “Mariana Starke and Millecent Thomas: Early Translators of Genliss Le théâtre à lusage des jeunes personnes (1779-1780)Notes and Queries, Vol.
45 (243)
, No. 1, pp. 81-2.
Pitcher, Edward W., and Isobel Grundy. Note of information about Clara Reeve to Isobel Grundy.
Pitcher, Edward W. Signatures and Pseudonyms of the Eighteenth-Century British Magazines: An Annotated Index in Three Volumes. 2004.
Pitcher, Edward W. The "Lady’s Monthly Museum". First Series: 1798-1806. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
Pitcher, Edward W. The Literary Magazine and British Review: (London 1788-1794): an annotated catalogue of the prose and verse. Edwin Mellen Press, 2005, 2 vols.
Pitcher, Edward W. The Literary Prose of "Westminster Magazine" (1773-1785). Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
Pitcher, Edward W. “The Miscellaneous Periodical Works and Translations of Miss R. Roberts”. Literary Research Newsletter, Vol.
5
, No. 3, pp. 125-8.
Pitcher, Edward W. Woman’s Wit. Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.