Peter Abelard

F.-N. Du Bois published at the Hague what was probably the first of the many fictionalized accounts of Héloïse 's life: Histoire des amours et des infortunes d'Abélard et d'Eloïse.

George Moore published a novel on the ever-popular theme of Héloise and Abelard.

According to M. T. Clanchy, she was known for her learning before the great theologian Peter Abelard became her tutor; it was, in fact, greater than his own.

Although the first version of the Symphonia, a poetic cycle that praises God, Mary, and certain saints, was completed in 1158, HB continued to add poems to it until her death. Written for...

Abelard to Eloisa, an epistolary reply written in 1720 by Judith Cowper (who by now was Judith Madan) to Pope 's Eloisa to Abelard, was published in William Pattison 's posthumous works.

The famous beloved, Laura, whom he celebrates in his poetry, has not been identified. He says that he first saw her in a church in Avignon during Holy Week, 1327; she was probably...

AP published his one-volume Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, including the previously unpublished epistle Eloisa to Abelard and Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.

On a Cenotaph quotes a phrase from Baudelaire 's poem Lesbos: the shocking juxtaposition of a dead body with adoration in le cadavre adoré di Sapho . Though SP supplied notes to some things...

AS compiled a 7-page booklet, Memoirs of Abelard and Eloisa, which was issued at Newcastle with other Abelard and Eloisa material.

ET 's reputation persisted for some time after her death. Mary Scott praised her highly in The Female Advocate, 1774. John Duncombe (though her posthumous publication was too late for inclusion in his Feminiad...

Helen Waddell published a historical novel entitled Peter Abelard (in which, naturally, Heloise is also an important figure).

HW never completed the work with which she hoped to crown her career as a scholar, a study of John of Salisbury (who lived in the twelfth century and was a pupil of Abelard ...

EWW set out with conservative views on the Woman Question, though her early experience on a western farm meant that she took it for granted that women would be active and self-reliant. Her gender...