Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive

Index of General Reflections
Contextualizing Literary Annuals

This index is intended to provide a context for the literary annual genre during its initial rise in popularity 1823-1830. Included here are excerpts from biographies, retrospective reviews and histories of various figures in the literary annual industry/phenomenon. Simply click on the title; each entry will open into a separate window. The transcripts are simple HTML without navigation links.

To gain more insight into the annuals' reception, consult the Periodical Reviews index or the collected letters of various authors who published during the early nineteenth century (e.g., Thomas Hood, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Charles Lamb, Alaric A. Watts, William Wordsworth, Samuel T. Coleridge, etc.).

Topic

Excerpt

General

“The Annuals of Former Days.” The Bookseller, November 29, 1858. 493-499. Anonymous.
"Spirit of the 'Annuals' for 1828." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction. Vol. X, No. 288 Supplementary Number (1828). [Outside link to Project Gutenberg E-Text.]
[Reviews/Excerpts of various annuals for 1829]. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction. Vol. XIV, No. 402 Supplementary Number (1829). [Outside link to Project Gutenberg E-Text.]

Rudolf Ackermann

Ackermann 1783-1983: The Business of Art. By John Ford. London: Ackermann, 1983.

Countess of Blessington

"The Countess of Blessington.” By Jane F. Wilde (Anon.). Dublin University Magazine XLV (1855) 333-53. A review of The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington. By R.R. Madden, M.R.I.A. 2 vols. 8vo. London: T.C. Newby. 1855.

Alaric A. Watts

Alaric Watts. A Narrative of His Life. Vol. I of II. By His son, Alaric Alfred Watts. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1884.
Alaric Watts. A Narrative of His Life. Vol. II of II. By His son, Alaric Alfred Watts. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1884.