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Stuart’s Post and the Reign of Mary Robinson
This chapter turns its attention to the most important Della Cruscan poet to appear in the papers in the years immediately following France’s...
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Mary Howitt’s Translation of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales
Hannah Persson’s essay looks at the early reception in England of Denmark’s most famous writer Hans Christian Andersen, showing how Andersen was...
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Robinson, Mary
1773 Bühnendebüt, protegiert von David Garrick, Heirat mit Thomas Robinson; 1774 Geburt der Tochter Maria; 1779 Rolle der Perdita (...
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Charlotte Mary Yonge and the Concept of Conservative Community
This chapter explores Yonge’s conservative politics, particularly her conceptualisation of conservative community, through case-studies of Heartsease...
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Griselda as Mary: Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale and Alanus de Rupe’s Marian Exemplum
In 1997, Anne Winston-Allen published a few of the exempla in Von dem psalter und Rosenkranz unserer lieben Frau, a compilation of stories by Alanus...
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Experiment in Prose: Authority and Experience in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Letters
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was known as an innovator during her lifetime. Montagu’s conception of herself as living an experimental life was...
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Henry, Prince of Wales, and Britain’s Lost Renaissance
Cambridge University recently marked the 400th anniversary of the death of Henry Stuart, not without some irony (Henry associated himself with...
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Becoming Somebody: Refashioning the Body Politic in Mary Robinson’s Nobody
In 1794, Mary Robinson—author, celebrity figure, and former actress and mistress of the Prince of Wales—debuted her new comedy Nobody at London’s...
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Charlotte Dacre, Sophia King and the Tory Post
Mary Robinson died at the end of 1800, bringing to an end an impressive poetic career that had been nurtured and developed in the pages of the...
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Genre and Gender Issues in Mary Shelley’s Narrative
This essay attempts to establish a relationship between literary genres and gender issues in Mary Shelley’s narrative, and intends to highlight the...
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Women as Patrons of Drama
Many women served as dramatic patrons in early modern England. They helped make plays in private and public venues by commissioning and funding...
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Women’s Occasional Poetry
Women’s contributions to the tradition of occasional poetry range from occasional meditations and reflections, to elegies and epithalamia, to encomia...
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Mary (Courtship)
The chapter treats Meredith’s courtship of Mary Ellen Nicolls, a young widow, six years his senior, who already had a daughter, Edith, by her first...
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Convents of Pleasure: English Women’s Literary Utopias
This final chapter uncovers the overlooked influence of Catholic women’s spiritual utopianism on Protestant English women’s literary utopias by...
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Medievalist forgery? Editions, adaptations, and translations of Kudrun in the nineteenth century
This ‘terms of art’ essay considers whether, and how far, the term forgery can usefully be applied to the study of translations and adaptations in...
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‘The Bloody Proclamation to Escape’: Edgar and Romantic Outlawry
In contrast to the ‘gusto and energy’ of his half-brother Edmund and his ‘richer’ alter ego of Poor Tom, Edgar has been critiqued for emptiness—as...
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The ‘Polish Problem’ and Transnational Activism
This final chapter examines Conrad’s political essays written between 1905 and 1916 (and two short stories from the same period) in relation to the...
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The Oracle and the Female Poet
In 1789 the fortunes of the World suffered a heavy blow when the paper’s printer, John Bell, left the paper after a disagreement with Topham. In June...