Richard Savage

Standard Name: Savage, Richard

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Textual Production Samuel Johnson
SJ published, anonymously, The Life of Mr. Richard Savage; his subject, a personal friend, had died on 1 August 1743.
Johnson, Samuel. Lives of the English Poets. Editor Hill, George Birkbeck, Oxford at the Clarendon Press.
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Textual Production Martha Fowke
Richard Savage 's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, 1726, includes both at least nine poems by MF (as Clio) and verses addressed to her.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Gerrard, Christine. Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector 1685-1750. Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production Ann Hatton
The dedication, to Mrs Carsgill of Holme Lodge, Northumberland, mentions past discussions with her on the topic of the passions, and cites Johnson 's Life of Savage to prove their violence.
Hatton, Ann. Deeds of the Olden Time. A. K. Newman.
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Textual Production Eliza Haywood
Chetwood (who published a number of women writers) dedicated the first, anonymous volume to the actress Anne Oldfield .
Haywood, Eliza. Love in Excess. Editor Oakleaf, David, Broadview.
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A man, also anonymous, contributed a prefatory poem saying that EH had cured him of...
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
This may have been an expanded version of the unpublished collection The Danger of Giving Way to Passion, in Five Exemplary Novels.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto.
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Volume one features an elegant portrait of EH by Jacques Parmentier
Textual Production Medora Gordon Byron
This was published by Minerva in two volumes, listing Miss Byron's four previous titles—those of A Modern Antique are not mentioned, though a couple of etceteras might signify those if not others. The title-page...
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
The full title was Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman, return'd from a thirteen years slavery in America, where he had been sent by the wicked contrivances of his cruel uncle. A story founded on...
Textual Features Sarah Chapone
This 70-page pamphlet, addressed to Parliament , exhibits detailed knowledge of the law and of recent cases involving heiress marriage, adultery, etc. SC finds the English law harsher to women than either ancient Roman or...
Performance of text Sir J. M. Barrie
James Barrie 's first full-length adult play, Richard Savage (on which he collaborated with H. B. Marriott Watson ), was performed for a charity matinee at the Criterion Theatre in London.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
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Occupation Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
LMWM acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage and Henry Fielding , but also Edward Young and Samuel Boyse . Books to which...
Occupation Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
Among writers who received Lady Hertford's patronage were Elizabeth Singer Rowe , Elizabeth Boyd , Elizabeth Carter , Mary Chandler , Isaac Watts , Laurence Eusden (for whom she set topics of occasional poems), James Thomson
Literary responses May Drummond
A scurrilous poem of 1735, The Female Speaker; or, The Priests in the Wrong, probably by Richard Savage , linked MD 's name (lightly disguised by dashes) with that unruly Female Member the tongue...
Literary responses Martha Fowke
In the same volume Savage salutes MF as a better and more moving poet than Haywood. Christine Gerrard believes that the British Journal review of this volume, which celebrates the large Share of Merit in...
Literary responses Eliza Haywood
This novel reaped warm praise, not only from Savage (who hailed EH 's rising Name)
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto.
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but also from an unidentified contemporary, a young lady named Ma. A., author of a novel entitled...
Literary responses Eliza Haywood
This year EH was praised by James Sterling , but compared to her disadvantage with Martha Fowke by Richard Savage .

Timeline

2 April 1698: Anne (Mason), Countess of Macclesfield, was...

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2 April 1698

Anne (Mason), Countess of Macclesfield , was divorced by Act of Parliament; this was the first civil divorce (not first passed by an ecclesiastical court).

February 1726: Richard Savage published his Miscellaneous...

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February 1726

Richard Savage published his Miscellaneous Poems and Translations: dedicated to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , it included work by Eliza Haywood , Martha Fowke , and Miranda Hill .

25 June 1737: Richard Savage protested against slavery...

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25 June 1737

Richard Savage protested against slavery in his poemOf Public Spirit in Regard to Public Works (an expansion of the previous year's A Poem on the Birth-Day of the Prince of Wales).

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