Congreve, William. Incognita. Scolar Press.
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Literary responses | Frances, Lady Norton | The reception of this volume, dictated by Gethin's position as her father's only child and heir, and as an exemplary pattern of female excellence, rather than by consideration of the literary quality of her work... |
Literary responses | Anne Killigrew | AK
's death was lamented in at least three poems. Her father printed in her PoemsDryden
's ode on her death, which links her painting and poetry, and subordinates both arts to her virtue... |
Literary responses | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | Dryden
showed his copy of the poem to |
Occupation | William Congreve | Congreve was twenty-one when on 22 December 1691 he licensed his first book, a short novel called Incognita: or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd, which was published the following year. Congreve, William. Incognita. Scolar Press. title-page |
Occupation | John Milton | As to poetry, Paradise Lost was quickly recognised as a classic. In 1674, while it was still a very recent text, Dryden
praised it as undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime... |
Performance of text | Aphra Behn | An amateur performance at Court of Dryden
's The Indian Emperor used a prologue which AB
included in her Covent Garden Drolery, but probably did not write. Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press. 210n42 |
Performance of text | Alison Fell | AF
was a constant source of scenes, burlesques, and improvisations for performance by the Women's Liberation Street Theatre Group
. She also wrote for a number of underground or radical papers: Ink, Islington Gutter... |
Author summary | Aphra Behn | It is difficult to summarise AB
's immense and complex importance for the history of women's writing. Virginia Woolf
said she deserved from all women a tribute of flowers because she was the first to... |
Author summary | Anne Killigrew | AK
(also a painter) was a fine Restoration-period poet, who has the misfortune of being better known for Dryden
's praises of her than for her actual work. |
Author summary | Elizabeth Thomas | |
Textual Features | Sarah Fyge | The volume nicely mixes the personal and political. SF
shows daring in expressions of love and of refusal to accept conventional restraints of all kinds. She reprints all four of her poems on Dryden
's... |
Textual Features | Anna Maria Porter | The novel ranges over Barbary, Persia, and Brazil, Stevens, Anne. “Tales of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction, 1770-1812”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol. 7 . |
Textual Features | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | MLC
's occasions include the public and private. She opens with an ode on the recent death of the queen's only surviving child
, in which the speaker, unconventionally, rejects the consolation duly offered by... |
Textual Features | Anna Seward | The series (completed in 1791) developed from AS
's strictures on John Weston
's contributions to a book entitled Records of the Woodmen of Arden. She compared Dryden
with Pope
to the advantage of... |
Textual Features | Catharine Trotter | CT
's dedication sets out her own literary and dramatic models: Shakespeare
, Dryden
, Otway
, and Nathaniel Lee
. Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang. 87 |
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