160. To [Elizabeth] Inchbald, 10 September [1797]

2011 ◽  
pp. 238-238
Author(s):  
William Godwin
Keyword(s):  
Elizabeth Inchbald

Magazine Miniatures: Portraits of Actresses, Princesses, and Queens in Late Eighteenth-Century Periodicals

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Engel
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Visual Display ◽  
Elizabeth Inchbald ◽  
Mary Robinson ◽  
Sarah Siddons ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Individual Character ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Royal Women

This essay explores images of actresses, queens and princesses in late-century periodicals. Comparing portraits of Sarah Siddons, Mary Robinson, and Elizabeth Inchbald to images of Queen Charlotte and Princess Charlotte Augusta, Laura Engel argues that periodical portraits function as celebrity pin-ups (versions of the same image) as well as markers of individual character (celebrating specificity and originality), thus participating in the creation of ideas about women’s claim to fame, legitimacy, and visibility. Readers could ‘own’ an image of their favourite player by purchasing a periodical, and could also feel connected to royal women, who resembled their most cherished theatrical stars. At the same time, the legitimacy bestowed on queens and princesses transferred visually to famous actresses who appeared in very similar costumes and poses. Looking closely at the ways in which artists employed similar iconography in these portraits, suggests ways of seeing that, Engel contends, connect to contemporary modes of visual display, particularly to the repetition and serial nature of pictures on Facebook, which promote a sense of intimacy and familiarity with the portrait’s subject that is ultimately a construction. Periodical portraits thus foreground the inherent tension between formality and intimacy highlighted in images of celebrated women.

THE ELIZABETH INCHBALD PAPERS

1982 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 220-b-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
PATRICIA SIGL
Keyword(s):  
Elizabeth Inchbald

Mrs. Elizabeth Inchbald

1894 ◽  
Vol s8-VI (142) ◽  
pp. 207-207
Author(s):  
Artist.
Keyword(s):  
Elizabeth Inchbald

The Diaries of Elizabeth Inchbald

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben P Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Elizabeth Inchbald

Three Women Writers and the “Jesuit Sublime”: Or, Jesuits in Love

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Wilt
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Elizabeth Inchbald ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Frances Trollope ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early Modern Times

AbstractThe return of the repressed “Catholic” has been lurking at the edge of English literary consciousness since early modern times, especially in the shorthand form of the plotting Jesuit. In its combined familiarity and mystery, grandeur and meanness, legitimacy and treason, “the Jesuit” even constitutes a figure for the Sublime. Novels by Thackeray, Kingsley, and Shorthouse locate the Jesuit in the political history of the nation, as the seducer of young noblemen. But this essay studies lesser-known novels by Elizabeth Inchbald, Frances Trollope, and Mary Arnold Ward in which the plotting Jesuit, himself an object of allure in his un-Anglican “reserve” and his pre-Reformation Englishness, is suborned by his own humanity into the forbidden sublimities of love. As political threat and psychological object of desire, the Jesuit-in-love also represents Anglicanism's flirtation with Catholicism and with Queerness, his defeat/conversion sealing its commitment to its heterosexual priesthood and its post-Catholic modernity.

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