The Gentleman's Magazine reprinted (two or three years after CG
's death) her To Mrs. Mary Barber, which had just appeared in Barber's Poems on Several Occasions.
HG
admired the English religious writer Isaac Watts
. Much of her poetry and many of her prose essays have religious themes; several are commemorative in function. Her prose can be as imaginative as her poetry, and one piece takes the form of a dream. The subjects of her verse elegies include not only family members (her mother, her sister), but other women who are known to history as writers: the Quaker autobiographer and preacher Jane Hoskens
as well as Susanna Wright. Of Hoskens she writes that fainting Nature Sigh'd to be undrest, / And drew the Curtains Of her evening rest.
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Her poem To the Memory of my much esteemed friend Daniel Stanton
, who died 1770 was printed by John Comly
in the Friends' Miscellany, Philadelphia, 1832. Stanton was a Quaker
preacher.
Comly, John, and Isaac Comly, editors. Friends’ Miscellany. Printed for the editors by J. Richards.
In the same year that this volume appeared, she published twenty-six poems in the Boston Spectator and Ladies' Album, and won a prize from it for one entitled Hymn to Charity.
Okker, Patricia. Our Sister Editors. University of Georgia Press, 1995, p. 264 pp.
Because of the pressures of family and economic circumstances, she did not publish until the age of fifty-four, when she began contributing to Cassell
's Working Man's Friend.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
After she became blind in her sixties, she dictated her poetry to her son James
. Her work was, he recalled, composed amid the bustle and noise incident to the affairs of a family being conducted in a small house, or while she was engaged in conversation with her family or friends.
Hamilton, Janet. Poems, Sketches, and Essays. James Maclehose, 1885.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
NH
launched her career as a writer by helping a friend who was standing in for the absent art critic on a well-known Sunday paper.
Hamnett, Nina. Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography. Allan Wingate, 1955.
27
The friend was not a journalist but a barrister. However, NH
says he understood journalism, though not pictures. She was to get half the payment, which came to thirty shillings a week. For the first number they visited all the galleries in Bond Street, while NH
explained the principles of painting. On this basis her friend wrote an article she thought most awfully good. After further articles the barrister had a busy week and devolved the writing to NH
. She found she had so much to say about Matissethat I forgot the difficulties of writing for a time. Her very first article was thus published (after revision) under someone else's pseudonym. She clearly enjoyed the experience, but it lasted only three months before the barrister decided he could manage without her help.
Hamnett, Nina. Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography. Allan Wingate, 1955.
EH
had four pastorals accepted as contributions by the Coventry Mercurya few years before they were collected in her single publication.
Hands, Elizabeth. The Death of Amnon. Printed for the Author, 1789.
prelims
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography mentions her placing poems in both Birmingham and Coventry papers. For these she used the pastoral name of Daphne.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
MADH
was a frequent contributor of short fiction to what Helen Black calls high-class magazines and Christmas numbers,
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
201
such as The Gentlewoman and Queen.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
She also produced articles chiefly on social topics: towards the end of her life she said jokingly that these had superseded novels as her chief interest. Black mentions two titles, The Morality of Money and Free Pardon.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
In keeping with standard academic practice, JEH
refined her research in journal articles before and after issuing her monographic studies. She published her work in such periodicals as the Journal of Hellenic Studies, the Annual of the British School at Athens, the Edinburgh Review, and the Classical Review.
Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press, 2001.
A love-song by Frances, Countess of Hertford
, which she called Song to a River, was published in Bickham's Musical Entertainer, as The Maid's Request.
Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940.
The full title is Immediate, Not Gradual, Abolition: or an Inquiry into the Shortest, Safest, and most Effectual Means of Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery. That year produced several London editions, and one in the United States. An undated, anonymous London edition features a frontispiece illustration of a slave, not kneeling as in the famous Wedgwood medallion but standing in defiance, not asking the famous question (Am I not a man and a brother?) but asserting, I am a man, your brother.
Heyrick, Elizabeth. Immediate, Not Gradual, Abolition. 1824.
title-page
A biblical text follows: He hath made of one blood all nations of men. (Acts xvii.26).
Heyrick, Elizabeth. Immediate, Not Gradual, Abolition. 1824.
title-page
Immediate, Not Gradual, Abolition was reprinted at Boston in 1838. The American Benjamin Lundy
serialised it in his journal Genius in 1826-7.
Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 41-67.
After her emigration to Oakland in CaliforniaCH
published a story in the Overland Monthly, and planned a whole series of stories both for this publication and for eventual collection in a book. She intended to use her English observations of Amercan life, with some lively ventriloquizing of American expressions, which as used in lively, satirical letters to her eldest son include very mean & real ugly, and real mad (meaning angry).
qtd. in
Sutherland, Kathryn. Jane Austen’s Textual Lives from Aeschylus to Bollywood. Oxford University Press, 2007.
264
She had not yet been paid for her story in print, and said she was eager to know how much she would get. I don't write for nothing, she assured her son, and declared her intention of publishing as Mrs. C. Austen Hubback—but some or all of this is a comic assumption of American brashness.
qtd. in
Sutherland, Kathryn. Jane Austen’s Textual Lives from Aeschylus to Bollywood. Oxford University Press, 2007.
LI
's fiction and essays appeared in many publications, both collections and periodicals. She figured in British as well as Caribbean anthologies: in Adventure and Discovery for Boys and Girls (a series published by Jonathan Cape
of which the first issue appeared in 1948) and in On the Air: An Anthology of the Spoken Word, 1951. She wrote on history, politics, and sometimes on paranormal phenomena for the Times, the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, The Observer, and the Evening Standard, as well as for The Radio Listener's Week End Book and Magazine Digest.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Between portraying one of the leading characters in Six Criminal Women and composing the book (which she called a novel), EJ
had written about the same case for the Sunday Express. When, after the book's appearance, the BBC
decided to do a television programme on Gully, they rejected input from EJ
, but she made some changes in the script anyhow since her friend Robert Harris
was in the leading role.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004.
CIJ
wrote this work at Inverness to support the Inverness Courier, and re-used material she had first written for that paper. It became a steady best-seller.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.