Trotter, Catharine. The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn. Editor Birch, Thomas, J. and P. Knapton.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Catharine Trotter | Historian and biographer Thomas Birch
edited CT
's Works posthumously in two volumes (as by Mrs. Catharine Cockburn) with his memoir of her, and published them by subscription. Trotter, Catharine. The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn. Editor Birch, Thomas, J. and P. Knapton. title-page |
Birth | Catharine Trotter | Thomas Birch
, editor of her posthumous works (and her tombstone, together with most sources until very recently), gave 16 August 1679 as her birth-date, but this would make her improbably young at the time... |
Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | This was CT
's greatest success. The young George Farquhar
much admired it; it was even praised by Charles Gildon
. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago. 406-7 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Catharine Trotter | She had begun work on these remarks during the winter of 1739. They appeared anonymously, dedicated to Pope
, in tribute to his argument about the congruence of self-love and benevolence. According to Thomas Birch |
Reception | Catherine Talbot | Copies of this letter were soon taken. Thomas Birch
secured one eight years later; another is in the Bodleian Library; circulation in manuscript continued into the 1760s, to CT
's chagrin. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 207 |
Textual Production | Catherine Talbot | CT
was, like most of her contemporaries, an assiduous and entertaining correspondent. Letters that she wrote to Jemima Campbell (later Lady Grey)
and Lady Mary Grey (later Gregory)
were copied and circulated by Thomas Birch |
Textual Production | Sarah, Lady Piers | These letters are now in the British Library
, together with Thomas Birch
's notes on them. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Again Theophilus Rowe
saw to the business side of this publication. Thomas Birch
sent ESR
a poem of his own (on his wife's death) as a contribution to volume two, but it arrived too late... |
Publishing | Mary Masters | This volume was printed for the Author. Its 833 subscribers (for 903 copies) Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press. 1: 409-10 |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Lennox | Somehow Charlotte Ramsay secured patronage from Lady Isabella Finch
and her sister the Countess (later the Marchioness) of Rockingham
. (She left Lady Rockingham's house, however, after some alleged indiscretion with a young man, possibly... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | CL
later said she was writing verses before she had finished learning to read. Thomas Birch
preserved a copy in English and a Latin translation of The Dream, an Ode, which she had written... |
Publishing | Sarah Dixon | SD
reveals her gender in her preface merely by her use of pronouns. Her motive for publishing was a dire need of money. An unnamed benefactor in her family supplied the need, but she decided... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Cooper | In this milieu EC
became friendly with the scholars and writers Thomas Birch
, James Ralph
, and William Oldys
. Oldys, a notable antiquary, later helped her with her editing enterprise, both with advice... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Carter | EC
associated on terms of warmth and equality with men of letters or culture such as Samuel Johnson
, Samuel Richardson
, Thomas Birch
, Moses Browne
, Richard Savage
, William
and John Duncombe |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Carter | During her time in London, the scholar Thomas Birch
paid EC
marked attentions. Perhaps he wanted to marry her (though she did not like him); possibly he had a different relationship in mind. He may... |