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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Thicknesse | Philip Thicknesse's anarchic energy tended to change the environments in which he and his family lived. Felixstowe Cottage acquired more and more whimsical decoration under his ownership; in the hills near Quoit he set up... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah More | HM
's sisters got up a subscription to help the mother and sister of the poet Chatterton
, after his untimely death. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952. 8 and n18 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Holford | The dedication relates how a masculine natal Genius visited the new-born poet, making her mother half-afraid of that aspect strange and wild, / As with immortal hand he touch'd th'unconscious child! The mother does not... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Mackenzie | Her dedication to the Princess of Wales mentions, in capitals, the late HAPPY EVENT of her marriage (ill-starred, as it turned out) to the future George IV
, which had taken place earlier in the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Cooper | EC
's book was generally respected. It was praised by Mary Scott
, and had a significant impact on Thomas Chatterton Bronson, Bertrand H. “Chattertoniana”. Modern Language Quarterly, Vol. 11 , 1950, pp. 417-24. 417 |
| Performance of text | Clemence Dane | CD
's experimental and fantastic musical verse drama about Thomas Chatterton
, Come of Age, opened in New York at Maxine Elliott's Theatre
. Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press, 1996. 100 |
| Publishing | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
, aged sixteen or seventeen, completed Chatterton, a verse drama on Thomas Chatterton
: she paid five pounds to have a hundred copies printed at Sevenoaks. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 33, 31 |
| Textual Features | Eliza Fenwick | For this anthology EF
gathered mostly improving pedagogical material, drawing on revered literary names like Shakespeare
and Milton
, as well as more recent and controversial writers like Thomas Chatterton
and Helen Maria Williams
... |
| Textual Production | Hannah Cowley | Included with it were two more poems, one of them on Thomas Chatterton
, and a Deprecation, written three years back and dedicated to her father
, complaining of harsh treatment by the reviewers... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Hunter | As well as songs published and unpublished, sonnets, and ballads exposing the harsh underside to eighteenth-century life, Armstrong, Isobel, and Anne Hunter. “Introduction”. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice, Liverpool University Press, 2009, pp. 1-11. 7 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Isabella Lickbarrow | Other kinds of poem in the volume include a ghost story and a fairy story, as well as dramatic monologues in the voices of a widow (who misses her husband's protecting hand) and of a... |
| Travel | Mary Russell Mitford | On this trip she also visited Bristol and (very briefly) Barnstaple in Devon. In Bath she was haunted (like many visitors after her) by the idea of Jane Austen
characters, and at Bristol by... |
Timeline
8 February 1777: Thomas Chatterton's fake medieval Rowley...
Writing climate item
8 February 1777
Thomas Chatterton
's fake medieval Rowley poems were posthumously published; controversy over their authenticity rumbled on for years.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
187-8
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
47 (1777): 137
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Texts
Chatterton, Thomas. Poems. Editor Tyrwhitt, Thomas, T. Payne and Son, 1777.