The writings moved by Birch were what prompted admirers to press for an edition. Literary historian Melanie Bigold
has called them her most significant contribution to philsophical debate in the period.Richard Price
drew attention...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Melanie Bigold
has argued the primary importance of the letter form in ESR
's output, noting that much of her poetry after her early years is embedded in prose structures.
Bigold, Melanie. “Elizabeth Rowe’s Fictional and Familiar Letters: Exemplarity, Enthusiasm, and the Production of Posthumous Meaning”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
Scholar Melanie Bigold
sees these letters as heightened, even romantic fiction, perhaps reflecting actual conversations about ideas, and incorporating poetry interspersed.
Bigold, Melanie. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Trotter, Carter, and Rowe.
Textual Features
Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Rowe's early letters to Mrs Thynne, full of gossippy entertainment and anecdotal brilliance,
Bigold, Melanie. “Elizabeth Rowe’s Fictional and Familiar Letters: Exemplarity, Enthusiasm, and the Production of Posthumous Meaning”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
29
, No. 1, pp. 1-14.
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also take pains to create an ideal of female friendship, enforced with quotations from the poetry of Katherine Philips
....
Textual Production
Elizabeth Carter
EC
's verse appeared regularly for more than a decade in the Gentleman's Magazine as by Eliza.
The Orlando Project is grateful to Melanie Bigold
for advice on its EC
material.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Bigold, Melanie. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Trotter, Carter, and Rowe.
Textual Production
Elizabeth Carter
In 1747 Samuel Richardson
printed in the first instalment of his novel Clarissa an Ode to Wisdom which was actually by EC
, though he later said he did not at this time know its...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Carter
Apart from her prowess in intellectual genres, EC
was an indefatigable letter-writer. Catherine Talbot urged her in 1763 to circulate if not to publish her letters. In 1807 the two-volume edition of Hester Mulso Chapone
Textual Production
Catharine Trotter
As a child CT
was said to have composed extemporary verse.
The Orlando Project is grateful to Melanie Bigold
for advice on its CT
material.
Textual Production
Elizabeth Singer Rowe
ESR
was writing poetry by the age of twelve; a small album from that year survives.
Greer, Germaine, Susan Hastings, Jeslyn Medoff, and Melinda Sansone, editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
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Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang, 1973.
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The Orlando Project is grateful to Melanie Bigold
for advice on its ESR
material.
Textual Production
Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Jane Turell
of Massachusetts (a generation younger than ESR
, the daughter of her old admirer Benjamin Colman
) emulated Rowe so single-mindedly that Melanie Bigold
feels she became a kind of American Rowe. She...
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Texts
Bigold, Melanie. “Collecting, losing, and recollecting women’s lives: thoughts towards digitising George Ballard’s manuscripts and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain</span>”;. Digital Diversity 2015.
Bigold, Melanie. “Elizabeth Rowe’s Fictional and Familiar Letters: Exemplarity, Enthusiasm, and the Production of Posthumous Meaning”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
29
, No. 1, pp. 1-14.
Bigold, Melanie. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Trotter, Carter, and Rowe.
Bigold, Melanie. “Letters and Learning”. The History of British Womens Writing 1690-1750, edited by Ros Ballaster, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. 173-86.
