William Cowper

The title-page quotes Langhorne and the first chapter-heading William Cowper . Despite its related material, this story is more bland than The Cousins. The hero, Walsingham, appears in England as the ward of Sir...

The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen , though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau on the topic of the sensitive...

Many chapters are headed with quotations from Shakespeare or Cowper . This novel pits domestic (upper-class) ties against destructive passions, the latter aroused by the fascinating Marchioness of Laisville (whose vices do not ruin her...

She goes on to quote Johnson , Cowper , Emerson (with whose thought she engages in some detail), and many other canonical names. Among women she quotes from Mary Bosanquet Fletcher (a passage about communion...

The title-page again quotes Cowper . This novel treats, in realistic style, a number of hot issues: sense and sensibility, the importance of marriage choice, and female financial dependence on male relatives who tend to...

This work draws on her diary, and gives a lively picture of local life at Ballitore over nearly sixty years (ending in 1823). She goes into some detail about her family and her early memories...

There follows a fighting critical Dissertation Respecting Patrons and Dedications, which covers the issues of male disrespect for female authors, the tyranny of critics, and over-insistence on moral instruction (with Hannah More 's Coelebs...

It is set in France, and voices anti-Catholic sentiments. The poetry quoted in it (by poets of the Graveyard School like Edward Young , Thomas Gray , and Edward Young , as well as...

Neither the Cumberland episode, nor her father's death, nor her own serious illness brought on by grief, can change Dorcasina. She next fancies that a new servant, John Brown, is a lover in disguise. (The...

After this the tide of MAP 's description begins to turn. Notwithstanding the general appearance of the natives, I never felt the least fear when in their company, being always with a party more than...

This work quotes Cowper on the title-page. The short stories (genuinely short this time) include A Few Days from My Journal (which opens with Johnson 's well-known remark to Boswell about the pleasure of driving...

The Author's Introduction is followed by one hundred short poems divided into two sections, which variously treat the central themes of mortality, impermanence, or the saving grace of Christianity. The poems are predominantly but not...

The poems are lively and entertaining, despite a steady the prevalence of accounts of penalties (up to and including death) naturally consequent on bad behaviour. The most famous of Ann's poems in the volume is...

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

CG says of Bessy Bell and Mary Gray that she was instructed by the lowliest of the muses to sing of ladies. Her subjects range from the fairly intimately personal to the boldly public (on...