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Memoirs of Women Writers (Chawton House Library, Women's Memoirs)
Hardcover. Pickering & Chatto Ltd 2011-12-31.
ISBN 9781848930513
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Frances Sheridan's biographer, the novelist Alicia LeFanu, was also her granddaughter. Born in Dublin in 1791, LeFanu never met her grandmother, but adopted a meticulous approach to using the latter's correspondence to build an accurate picture of a woman much admired amongst eighteenth-century literary society. LeFanu's novels are written in an ironic style which is at odds with the more reverent tone she adopts in telling the life of her relative - a fact picked up on by reviewers who saw her as too partial to provide a truly accurate account. By contrast, when Roberts published his four-volume Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs Hannah More (1833) he was considered not to have known his subject well enough. Roberts was the brother of More's good friends Mary and Margaret Roberts. The first edition of Roberts' biography contained over 400 letters written by More, which Roberts selected to favour his preferred of More's acquaintance. More's goddaughter, Marianne Thornton, was outraged and thought the letters - instructed by More to be burned - were unrepresentative of her godmother's character and style. Sarah Trimmer was an educationalist, critic and author. She published widely on the importance of female education and on children's literature. Aided initially by her father's appointment as tutor to the Prince of Wales, she was widely accepted into society. Samuel Johnson was impressed by Trimmer when he met her in her mid-teens and she was also a friend to Sir Joshua Reynolds. Her friendship with Hannah More was one based on mutual respect and interest in each other's work. More considered Trimmer 'the author whom I venture most to recommend.'
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