Joseph Swetnam

Standard Name: Swetnam, Joseph

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Rachel Speght
RS 's title picks up Swetnam's claim to bait women as dogs bait bears. Her work is a cool but earnest put-down: for the most part she ignores Swetnam 's element of wit or paradox...
Literary responses Rachel Speght
Some contemporary readers thought this work beyond the powers of a young woman, and therefore attributed it not to RS but to her father .
Speght, Rachel. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght. Lewalski, Barbara KieferEditor , Oxford University Press, 1996.
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The anonymous author of Ester Hath Hang'd Haman belittled...
Occupation Elizabeth Tollet
ET 's book ownership qualifies her as a collector in a way that few of her female contemporaries were, though since she left her collection to her scholarly nephew George it is hard to separate...
Textual Production Bathsua Makin
The title-page, in Latin, names her father as well as herself, mentions her tender age, and bears epigraphs in Greek and French. The British Library copy has a note on its final page in the...
Textual Production Rachel Speght
RS 's A Mouzell for Melastomus (a polemical reply to Joseph Swetnam 's Araignment of Lewde, idle, froward [sic], and unconstant Women, 1615) was listed in the Stationers' Register .
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, and Rachel Speght. “Introduction”. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. xi - xxxvi.
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Textual Production Rachel Speght
RS 's A Mouzell for Melastomus (i.e. for Joseph Swetnam ) is dated this year, though it may have appeared before the end of 1616.
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, and Rachel Speght. “Introduction”. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. xi - xxxvi.
xxxii

Timeline

8 February 1615
Joseph Swetnam 's The Araignment of Lewde, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it appeared as by Thomas Tel-troth.
Around late February 1742
A woman named Margaret Ogle published, with her name, two versesatires on Walpole's fall from power: Mordecai Triumphant, or, the Fall of Haman prime minister of state to King Ahasuerus: an heroic poem and The...