Ezell, Margaret J. M. “’Household Affaires are the Opium of the Soul’: Damaris Masham and the Necessity of Women’s Poetry”. Write or Be Written, edited by Ursula Appelt and Barbara Smith, Ashgate, 2001, pp. 49 -65.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Damaris Masham | Literary historian Margaret J. M. Ezell
notes the unavoidable incompleteness of modern conceptions of DM
which is entailed by the invisibility of her mother and her female circle, even though Masham represents the mother's influence... |
| Literary responses | Damaris Masham | Critic Margaret J. M. Ezell
, in a detailed discussion of this poem, sees it as a strongly argued position about the treatment of women as projections of masculine desires. |
| Literary responses | Damaris Masham | George Ballard
, in compiling his Memoirs of Eminent Ladies, praised the Observations which the Virtuous and excellently knowing LadyDM
made in this book on the Tyrannick Insolence, Oppressive and Monopilizing Tempers of... |
| Literary responses | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | Editor Margaret Ezell
notes how several women readers copied MLC
's most celebrated poem, To the Ladies, into irrelevant volumes, which they presumably thought a more secure repository than scraps of paper for a... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Delaval | The antiquarian H. H. E. Craster
first described this volume in the early twentieth century in an address to a Newcastle meeting of his fellow specialists, but this did not produce any interest in literary... |
| Literary responses | Anne Halkett | Editor John Loftis
finds AH
's to be one of the best and most sensitively written of seventeenth-century autobiographies in English. Bampfield, Joseph. Colonel Joseph Bampfield’s Apology. Loftis, John and Paul H. HardacreEditors , Bucknell University Press, 1993. 250 |
| names | Ephelia | The names and titles below are those of the most strongly-backed contender for the identity of the poet Ephelia. Margaret J. M. Ezell
, however, suggests that the Duchess of Richmond might be the Eugenia... |
| Occupation | Mary More | MM
was a portrait-painter and copyist, who left paintings in her family. The only one of her visual works known to survive, heavily retouched, hangs in the Bodleian Library
in Oxford. It was thought to... |
| Publishing | Anne Killigrew | The title-page said 1686. The frontispiece is an engraving from one of AK
's two painted self-portraits. Jonathan Swift
had a copy in his library. During the twenty-first century, copies of this handsome little book... |
| Publishing | Bathsua Makin | |
| Reception | Anne Whitehead | |
| Textual Features | Dorothy White | Literary historian Margaret J. M. Ezell
notes that breaking into poetry signifies celebration, and quotes a stanza that features the virgin spouses of Christ rejoicing in the Holy Land. Ezell, Margaret J. M. “From Manuscript to Print: A Volume of Their Own”. Women and Poetry, 1660-1750, edited by Sarah Prescott and David Shuttleton, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 140 - 60. 149 |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Bury | Her letters, likewise (judging from the fifteen or so which Samuel was able to find and print), are much concerned with advising her often younger correspondents on their spiritual lives and on practical applications of... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Delaval | The classification of her book is problematic. It has been called both a religious diary and a commonplace-book. In fact its long, prose, diary-entry-like passages are interspersed with prayers, a poem, and copies of letters... |
| Textual Production | Mary More | The Womans Right reached print in 2016, edited by Frances Teague
and Margaret J. M. Ezell
with Jessica Walker
in Bathsua Makin
and Mary More with a Reply to More by Robert Whitehall. |
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