Arnold, Ralph. The Unhappy Countess and her Grandson John Bowes. Constable.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susanna Watts | After the pasted-in pages and a section devoted to Tasso
, the volume moves to a poem modelled on the tabular lists of good and evil in his life that are kept by Defoe
's... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Smith | One month before writing this poem Elizabeth Smith
met Mary Hunt
, with whom she was soon maintaining a scholarly correspondence. In the earliest letter which Bowdler prints (written on 7 July 1792), Smith touches... |
Textual Production | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | She began writing this work, which she subtitled A Dramatic Poem, in Five Acts, five years earlier; even after its printing it remained unproduced. Arnold, Ralph. The Unhappy Countess and her Grandson John Bowes. Constable. 29-30 |
Textual Production | Susanna Watts | SW
worked hard for three months at translating Tasso
's Jerusalem and Verri
's Roman Nights; she had already done some translation from Tasso in about 1786. Elizabeth Singer Rowe
, too, had translated from Tasso's Jerusalem. Watts, Susanna. Scrapbook. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott. 12 |
Textual Production | Henrietta Battier | HB
's volume of verse gives the ages at which she composed several of her earliest poems. During the 1760s she wrote, at eleven, a rhapsodic meditation on the theme of Good Friday. At twelve... |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Butler | Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton
, and Harriet Pigott
therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby
. Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, p. vii - viii; various pages. vii |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Edmund Curll
, still cashing in, published Select Translations from Tasso
's Jerusalem, by the late ESR
. Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang. 157 |
Textual Production | Isabella Neil Harwood | INH
published three plays in one volume, entitled Arabella Stuart
; The Heir of Linne; Tasso. Pall Mall Gazette. J. K. Sharpe. 4558 (1 October 1879) |
Textual Production | Mary Latter | This play by ML
is distantly related to Tasso
's Gerusalemme liberata (as is The Siege of Jerusalem by Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
, which was privately printed in 1774). An early draft... |
Textual Features | Helena Wells | HW
says she has more respect for the upper classes than some of our modern reformists. Wells, Helena. Letters on Subjects of Importance to the Happiness of Young Females. L. Peacock; W. Creech. 7 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | The Vision (first of her poems both in the Tonson volume and in the posthumous Miscellaneous Works) and On the Creation both express the resolve to choose religious themes for the future. Two extended... |
Textual Features | Isabella Neil Harwood | The last play in this volume, Tasso, tells the story of the Italian Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso
, who here leaves his home and his love, Laura, to pursue ambition, fame, and fortune. At... |
Textual Features | Anne Marsh | Adelaide Lindsay, which quotes Tasso
on its title-page, gives no hint as to what AM
's non-authorial relationship with it may have been. It follows its heroine from her first arrival home to Jamaica... |
Reception | Aphra Behn | Alexander Pope
used a poem by AB
, The Golden Age, in his Peri Bathous; or, The Art of Sinking in Poetry, as an example of the despised Florid Style. To sharpen his... |
Occupation | Frances Reynolds | Samuel Johnson
was eager to sit for her, and did so on three occasions: in March 1775, in June 1780, and in summer 1783. He may have been sitting for her on the day before... |