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Cristall was born on 7 December 1769 in Penzance, Cornwall, and baptized on the same date. She was the 2nd of 4 children and the eldest daughter of Elizabeth (Batten) and Alexander Cristall, a sailor from Monifieth, Scotland.<ref name=abcristaldww> [https://sites.google.com/a/georgiasouthern.edu/nonconformist-women-writers-1650-1850/cristall-anne-batten-c-1769-1848 Ann Batten Cristall], Dissenting Women Writers, 1650-1880). Web, Apr. 5, 2020.</ref> Her elder brother, Joshua (1767-1847), would become a well-known painter, and her younger sister Elizabeth an engraver and (like Ann) a teacher.<ref>{{Cite DNB|title=Cristall, Joshua|volume=13|page=101|last=Tregella|first=Walter Hawken}}. Wikisource, Web, Apr. 5, 2020.</ref> |
Cristall was born on 7 December 1769 in Penzance, Cornwall, and baptized on the same date. She was the 2nd of 4 children and the eldest daughter of Elizabeth (Batten) and Alexander Cristall, a sailor from Monifieth, Scotland.<ref name=abcristaldww> [https://sites.google.com/a/georgiasouthern.edu/nonconformist-women-writers-1650-1850/cristall-anne-batten-c-1769-1848 Ann Batten Cristall], Dissenting Women Writers, 1650-1880). Web, Apr. 5, 2020.</ref> Her elder brother, Joshua (1767-1847), would become a well-known painter, and her younger sister Elizabeth an engraver and (like Ann) a teacher.<ref>{{Cite DNB|title=Cristall, Joshua|volume=13|page=101|last=Tregella|first=Walter Hawken}}. Wikisource, Web, Apr. 5, 2020.</ref> |
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*[https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00301.shtml Anne Batten Cristall] at the [[Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive]] |
*[https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00301.shtml Anne Batten Cristall] at the [[Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive]] |
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Revision as of 03:27, 24 November 2021
Ann Batten Cristall, Poetical Sketches, 1795.
Ann Batten Cristall (baptized 7 December 1769 - 9 February 1848) was an English poet and schoolteacher, on friendly terms with Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and several other writers of her period.
LIfe
Youth
Cristall was born on 7 December 1769 in Penzance, Cornwall, and baptized on the same date. She was the 2nd of 4 children and the eldest daughter of Elizabeth (Batten) and Alexander Cristall, a sailor from Monifieth, Scotland.[1] Her elder brother, Joshua (1767-1847), would become a well-known painter, and her younger sister Elizabeth an engraver and (like Ann) a teacher.[2]
The family moved to London during her childhood, and then to Blackheath. Partly educated by her mother, Ann was then sent to school in London with her brother Joshua.
Career
Cristall became a schoolteacher but seems to have remained dependent financially on her brother Joshua.[1] By the late 1780s she was a friend and correspondent of Mary Wollstonecraft,[1] who wrote to Joshua in March 1790 that Ann's "comfort very much depends on you." In a further letter to Joshua on 9 December 1790 she noted: "I fear her situation is very uncomfortable. I wish she could obtain a little more strength of mind."[3]
Wollstonecraft, along with Barbauld, John Aikin, Mary Hays, Ann Jebb, and other literary figures, features in the subscription list for Ann Christall's Poetical Sketches, which was published in 1795 by Joseph Johnson.[4] The book includes a self-deprecating preface by the poet.[5]
A suggestion by poet George Dyer for Cristall to collaborate with Mary Hays on a "poetical novel" was not followed through. She was introduced in 1797 to Robert Southey, who praised her genius in a letter of 13 March 1797 to publisher Joseph Cottle.[3]
Later life
Little is known of Cristall's later life. She appears to have dropped out of the literary social scene after the 1790s and to have remained unmarried. She may have lived latterly with a younger sister, Elizabeth, an engraver,[4] serving as an assistant at Lewisham Hill Grammar School in Kent. She died on 9 February 1848, 4 months after her brother. There is a memorial inscription in her maiden name in St Mary's Church, Lewisham, where she was buried.[3]
Writing
Cristall's longer narrative poems and her verse pastoral sketches tend to be melancholy and inclined towards the uncanny or even horrific. Critics at the time noted some imperfections, but praised her "genius and Warmth of imagination". They include some nature description and laments for dying genius.[6] A recent critic discerned in her work "technical virtuosity, masked by claims of metrical irregularity, and a profound questioning of Romantic values."[7] Another modern commentator has called her book of poems "a remarkable text of women's Romanticism".[8]
Publications
- Poetical Sketches. London: J. Johnson, 1795.[9]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ann Batten Cristall, Dissenting Women Writers, 1650-1880). Web, Apr. 5, 2020.
- ↑
Tregella, Walter Hawken (1888) "Cristall, Joshua" in Stephen, Leslie Dictionary of National Biography 13 London: Smith, Elder, p. 101. Wikisource, Web, Apr. 5, 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedODNB - ↑ 4.0 4.1 Paula R. Feldman: British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. An Anthology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997), p. 213 ff. This contains 7 extracts from the book.
- ↑ "Biography: Ann Batten Cristall on Ann Batten Cristall". spenserians.cath.vt.edu. http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/BiographyRecord.php?action=GET&bioid=35759. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ↑ The Feminist Companion to Literature in English, eds Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 248.
- ↑ Richard C. Sha: "Cristall, Ann Batten" in: Frederick Burwick, ed.: Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2012) Retrieved 19 October 2015
- ↑ Orlando project Retrieved 25 November 2016
- ↑ Search results = au:Ann Cristall, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, May 23, 2016.
External links
- Poems
- "Verses Written in the Spring" (s1)
- "Ode on Truth"
- Anne Batten Cristall at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive
- Books
- Ann Batten Cristall at Amazon.com
- About
- Ann Batten Cristall at Dissenting Women Writers, 1650-1850
- Ann Batten Cristall (1768 ca.-1795 fl.) at English Poetry, 1579-1830
- An analysis of Poetical Sketches and its context
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