The reprint includes high praise of the little volume, calling it quite equal to [William Roscoe
's The Butterfly's Ball, 1807] in playfulness and spirit, and far superior to it in facility of...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
EPW
privately printed the first edition of her poem Flora & Pomona's Fête; or, The Origin of Botanical & Horticultural Meetings. A Poem After the Butterfly's Ball, in order to raise money for the...
Literary responses
Mary Wollstonecraft
Radicals, however, responded positively. William Roscoe
(father of Mary Anne Jevons
) hailed MW
in a poem satirising Burke.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Penguin.
126-7
Appearing shortly before Tom Paine
's Rights of Man on 1 February 1791, the book...
