Anthologist Roger Lonsdale
includes several stanzas from it in his Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology, 1989.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
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Literary responses
Anna Letitia Barbauld
William Enfield
quoted eight lines from Aikin (as Our Poetess) in dedicating his very popular anthology The Speaker, designed for the teaching of elocution, to the head of Warrington Academy
. Her volume...
Literary responses
Jane Brereton
In her anniversary poem on her mother's death, Charlotte Brereton
, writing as Carolina, seized as consolation the thought (in the Gentleman's Magazine's over-insistent typography): Yet shall thy writings—thy example, be / The...
Literary responses
Mary Leapor
The emphasis placed on ML
by Roger Lonsdale
in his revolutionary Eighteenth-Century Women Poets, 1989, was welcomed by reviewers.
Leapor, Mary. “Introduction”. Poems, edited by Ann Messenger and Richard Greene, 2003.
Donna Landry
, virtually originating the late twentieth-century interest in labouring-class women poets of this...
Literary responses
Judith Cowper Madan
Roger Lonsdale
in 1990 followed Falconer Madan
in supposing that her child-bearing and the influence of John Wesley
and the Methodists
amounted to sufficient explanation for her ceasing to write. Valerie Rumbold
suggested in 1996...
Reception
Elizabeth Tollet
Nineteenth-century anthologists Alexander Dyce
and Frederic Rowton
chose their selection of Tollet's poems from that of Southey.
Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University, 2004.
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Mid-century critic Jane Williams
thought Tollet lacked the vitalizing spark of genius, even though her correct metre...
Textual Features
Mary Savage
The opening poem, Nothing New, situates the anxieties of authors in regard to critics in the tradition of anxieties of lovers: both are right to be anxious. The contents include an English translation of...
Textual Production
Joanna Baillie
She told Mary Berry
that she hoped she would not give offence, since she wrote with humble boldness, regarding God & not man.
Her full title is Poems: Wherein it is attempted to describe...
Textual Production
Jane Brereton
Twenty-two numbers appeared of an anonymous periodical, The Criticks. Being Papers upon the Times, which was written by JB
's husband, Thomas
, but has been ascribed to her.
It has recently been suggested among scholars that MF
is the hitherto unidentified author of another and larger group of poems in the Barbados Gazette. Bill Overton
thinks it possible, Phyllis Guskin
thinks it...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Tollet
Her authorship of this volume was first revealed in a note in Roger Lonsdale
's Eighteenth-Century Women Poets in 1989.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele
upon the Death of Mr. Addison, published in February 1720 by a Lady, is attributed to ESR
in a contemporary note on the title-page of a...
Timeline
9 October 1731
The Barbados Gazette, edited by Samuel Keimer
, published its first issue.
Texts
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
Gray, Thomas, and William Collins. “Introduction”. Thomas Gray and William Collins: Poetical Works, edited by Roger Lonsdale, Oxford University Press, 1977, pp. 9-13.
Gray, Thomas, and William Collins. “Introduction”. Thomas Gray and William Collins: Poetical Works, edited by Roger Lonsdale, Oxford University Press, 1977, pp. 9-13.
Johnson, Samuel. “Introduction”. The Lives of the Poets, edited by Roger Lonsdale, Clarendon Press, 2006, pp. 1: 1 - 185.
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006.
Gray, Thomas, and William Collins. Thomas Gray and William Collins: Poetical Works. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Oxford University Press, 1977.
