Richard Savage

Standard Name: Savage, Richard

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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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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...
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
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...
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...
Friends, Associates Martha Fowke
She formed close links with a group of male poets who held opposition political views: James Thomson , Aaron Hill (who was corresponding with her by June 1721), Richard Savage (with whom she was exchanging...
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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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...
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
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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Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Haywood
After a possible affair with Richard Savage , EH seems to have begun her twenty-year liaison with William Hatchett , playwright and seemingly quintessential Grub Street hack,
Spedding, Patrick. “Eliza Haywood, Writing (and) Pornography in 1742”. Women Writing 1550-1750, edited by Jo Walwood and Paul Salzman, English Program, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, pp. 237-51.
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who was probably the father of her second child.
Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction and Chronology of Events in Eliza Haywood’s Life”. The Injur’d Husband, or, The Mistaken Resentment; and, Lasselia, or, The Self-Abandon’d, edited by Jerry C. Beasley, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlii.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Dedications Eliza Haywood
EH issued her third singly-published novel this year, The Rash Resolve, dedicated to Lady Rumney or Romney , with 1724 on its title-page and a prefatory poem by Richard Savage .
Lady Romney, a...
Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Haywood
EH may have married in Ireland, while she was there in 1715. She says in letters of the late 1720s that her marriage was unfortunate
Blouch, Christine. “Eliza Haywood and the Romance of Obscurity”. Studies in English Literature, Vol.
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, pp. 535-52.
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and brief: her husband died by 1728.
He was...
Friends, Associates Eliza Haywood
At this point in her life EH entered on literary relationships with Aaron Hill (who, with some gallant condescension, was a good friend to women writers) and his circle. They included Richard Savage (who has...
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...

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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