Frances Greville

Again one of Yearsley's most perceptive readers was Anna Seward , who wrote to Helen Maria Williams on Christmas Day 1787 that Yearsley and Burns were both miracles . . . . Perhaps she has...

The title-page quotes a stanza from Frances Greville 's Ode to Indifference. The book again purports to be by Prudentia Homespun, whose status as fictional character (and busybody and purveyor of gossip). She...

About a quarter of the poems here are sonnets; a similar proportion are translations or imitations. Some are attributed to characters in Tighe's unpublished novel Selena; others describe places Tighe had visited, or express...

Ann Ford told her father she was properly grateful for the education he had given her. He claimed that he had spent four hundred pounds a year or more on it. Susannah Cibber ...

Choice of women writers is fairly generous, with excerpts from Hester Mulso Chapone , John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld (Evenings at Home), Susanna Haswell Rowson , Elizabeth Carter , Hester Thrale ,...

The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare , Milton , Pope , Thomson , Goldsmith , William Mason , John Langhorne , Burns , Erasmus Darwin , Edward Young

A Letter to Miss E.B. on Marriage comments acutely on the conduct-book market: every He that writes claims a superior recipe for form[ing] the tender virgin's mind. Their recipes all boil down to...

Contents include lives of Elizabeth Singer Rowe and of Mary Wollstonecraft (the latter reprinted from the Monthly Visitor of London). Among the poems (some of them specifically attributed to SHR ) are one entitled...

From The WorldMR moved on to a rival periodical, The Oracle, to which she contributed fairy poems as Oberon—a name which perhaps owes something to Frances Greville 's famous Ode to Indifference...

This includes her Ode to Rapture (reprinted from The Oracle, later omitted from her posthumous volume), which her editor Judith Pascoe calls her most direct treatment of sexual passion. It invokes Frances Greville

Her own poems in this volume cover a wide range of moods. A piece written against Stoicism sounds like an answer to Frances Greville 's prayer for indifference as the speaker (who has a fickle...

EP follows in the tradition of Richardson , both in her general scheme and in details like an incident involving a male character and his kept mistress. At the outset each of the central friends...

These poems include political subject-matter, for instance in the celebratory Ode to the President, On his visiting the Northern States. This addresses Washington as Columbia's guardian God, who emulates and surpasses the military...

More takes a sceptical view of sensibility: she reproves both the representation of it in Goethe 's Werther (which had been available in English for about three years) and the sentimental enthusiasm which the book...

She has a sharp eye for gender issues, including those surrounding domestic work. The Housewife's Prayer is addressed to Economy, a name which might be loosely translated as balancing the budget, and ends with the...