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['New Monthly Magazine (March 1, 1820) pp. 271-275\n" (June 1, 1820) pp. 633-638.\n\nWritten by T.\n\n[Needs to be perused further. jdgaug16]\n\nMentions/discusses:\n[March 1]\n- Sappho\n- Aspasia\n- Mrs. Radcliffe "perhaps the most distinguished for vigour and originality of genius"\n- Charlotte Smith "makes ordinary things appear romantic". Neg. comment on character development.\n- Mrs Hamilton "is the pleasantest of those writers whose avowed object is to be useful"\n- Miss Edgeworth\n- Mrs. Brunton \'s writings "display no very elevated talents, but etc."\n- Joanna Baillie "is [of fem. authors now living] perhaps, endowed with the richest poetical genius"\n- Mrs. Hemans\n- Miss Mitford\n- Mrs. Hannah More\n- Mrs. Barbauld "like Mrs. More, excels chiefly in prose"\n- Mrs. Opie \n\n"Mrs. Opie\'s powers differ almost as widely as possible from those of Miss Edgeworth. Her sensibility is the charm of her works. [...] She too often mistakes the shocking for the pathetic [...] and heaps wrongs on wrongs on the defenceless head of the reader. [...] who can endure a madman, who, having broken from his keepers, unconsciously pursues his daughter, whose conduct has occasioned his insanity, and bursts into horrid laughter? Human life has enough of real misery, without those additions being made to it by an amateur in sorrow. It is neither pleasant nor profitable to contemplate in speculation unadorned, unrelieved agonies. It may be laid down as an axiom, that, when we feel inclined to resort to the collection that the tale is fictitious, in order to relieve our feelings, its author is mistaken." p.275\n\n- Mary Lamb "How tender and delicious is the pathos if the author of Mrs. Leicester\'s school!"\n\n[June 1]\n- Miss Porter\n- Miss Anna Maria Porter\n- Mrs. Inchbald\n\n"[...] though her pathos sometimes becomes oppressive beyond endurance, it is not, like that of Mrs. Opie, merely painful. The narratives with which she awakens our tears, consist not of gratuitous or fantastical sorrows; they relate not to children turning house-breakers, and murdering their parents by mistake; nor to ruffian boys, nor to mad fathers pursuing their daughters over heaths at midnight -- but tell of sadness real as they are touching." p. 634\n\n- Madame D\'Arblay [Frances Burney]\n- Lady Morgan\n- Miss Austen \'sweet and unambitious\'\n- Althea Lewis (author of "Things by their Right Names")\n- Mrs. Taylor\n- Miss Porden ""Veils" is a poem of singular richness"\n- Miss Holford\n- Miss Beetham\n- Mrs. Strutt\n- Mrs. Nooth\n- Miss Aikin\n- Mrs. Shemmelfenning\n- Miss Rowden\n- Mrs. Hunter\n- Mrs. West\n- Miss Benger']
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