‘A Task enough to make one frantic’: William Hayley’s Memorialising

This paper explores Hayley’s approach to, and writing about, memorialising, focusing on his manuscript collection of epitaphs, his letters to Anna Seward about her epitaph on Lady Miller, and his memoirs and biographies. How typical was he of late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century memorialists...

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Main Author: Lisa Gee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Groningen Press 2020-07-01
Series:European Journal of Life Writing
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Online Access:https://ejlw.eu/article/view/36899