Frances Greville

Unlike curst apathy, she writes, contemplation can raise the seed which Virtue sows, / From Folly's blights the tender plant defend, / 'Till vigorous as the towering oak it grows.

The contents are part new, part reprinted. SK notes this in Remarks of the Author, which admits the claims of good taste but declares that fantastic imagination too has its place. She writes in...

Her narratives of these emotional involvements lead her into analysis of the different effects of love on the two sexes. This analysis is founded on two women writers (identifiable although she does not name them)...

BH also pays much attention in her poems to other writers. Stanzas to the River Don footnotes Wortley Hall as a former home of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu .Ode to Apathy...

Again, her poems make up a series with a single speaker: a youngish woman living on a remote farm with practically no social context beyond animals and her mother. When she falls in love it...

At Ardnaree EH found herself courted by an officer named Jackson, with a sentimental manner and a habit of quoting poetry, such as Frances Greville 's prayer for indifference. He had aroused strong interest in...

He describes her with a line from Donne 's Second Anniversary. EG 's range of reference here includes Rousseau , Milton , Frances Greville , and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . Characters discuss and...

ESG quotes on her title-page from James Hammond and early in her first volume from Samuel Johnson (no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author). The quotation from...

Many of the poems continue the autobiographical mode of her first two books, with fawning gratitude for favourable reception as a writer. Many are elegiac, lamenting or commemorating people and places that had been dear...

The feelings of this Emma are all in extremes. During her early passion she quotes Frances Greville on the pains of sensibility. She and her father kneel alternately to each other when she...

The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret . Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF 's local and family connections: Ralph Allen , Lord Chesterfield

In the title poem a recluse offers shelter in his cave to a lady who gives birth and then dies, leaving her child to be educated only by nature. The protagonist of The Dying Maniac...

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...

This appendix includes sonnets, meditations, and Edmund and Anna, A Legendary Tale. CD addresses abstractions of various kinds: morning and evening, love, sympathy, madness, and war and peace. Indifference reflects the influence of Frances Greville

SHB wrote a Sonnet to Imagination, in answer to that to Indifference, which sounds like a contribution to the poetic debate begun by Frances Greville .