William Hayley

Agatha Torrington responds bravely to the suspicion that her marriage may have been bigamous. She takes her daughter away with her; the daughter, Emma Castlemain, follows in her footsteps by enduring her husband's unfaithfulness with...

Although HMB was provoked to write by William Hayley 's unpleasant Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids, 1785, she gives a mixed message. This begins with an epigraph drawn from Elizabeth Hamilton

HM 's Sensibility (a poem addressed to Frances Boscawen ) appeared in print together with her Sacred Dramas, by March 1782. Critic Harriet Guest says it was influenced by William Hayley 's Triumphs of Temper.

AS was several times painted by George Romney . One portrait, in fashionable garb, belonged to her father. Another was treasured by William Hayley , then vanished from sight. A century later it was found...

The Critical thought this even better than AS 's Elegy on Captain Cook: one of the most pleasing little poems which we ever perused. It doubted the wisdom, however, of printing the letters.

She wrote The Old Manor House while staying with a congenial group of friends (including Cowper , William Hayley , and George Romney ). The latter reported, in awed tones, that she would write a...

AS contributed to debate on Boswell 's Life of Johnson with extracts in the Gentleman's Magazine from her correspondence about Johnson with William Hayley , dating from 1782.

The Poems were in two volumes, with HMW 's name in full, published by Rivington and Marshall , with an engraved frontispiece drawn by Maria Cosway . Subscribers included the Prince of Wales (whose name...

MS was writing poetry while still in her teens, and sending her poems for comment to William Hayley . The social flutter caused in her neighbourhood by a visit from a published woman writer made...

Her father had cherished a never-executed project for a history of ancient Irish literature. She had issued Proposals for this work the year before publication. The Houghton Library copy of the Proposals incorporates a...

From the first (in a letter to William Hayley about her visit) AS had seen the noise, fire, and steam associated with iron-producing (often hailed at this period as aesthetically sublime) as an intrusion in...

The poems present human shifts of mood and quirks of feeling. They are sensitively observed and charmingly written. The only modern poets she yet knew of to admire, JB said later, were William Hayley and...

The introduction begins, It is not quite forty years since eliminating menopause was first mooted. It moves swiftly into the concept of a fear or hatred of old women, which Greer names anophobia.

Apart from Anna Seward , the volumes contain only a handful of women's names, but nearly half the contributions are given anonymously. The male poets honoured include Richard Graves and William Hayley .

She began her project as a money-earning one, but was later able to declare that the proceeds would go to charity. A further motive was patriotic and nationalistic: to counter the English (even, sometimes, the...