John Dryden

A first prologue addresses Pope , and invokes the ghosts of Shakespeare (The Wonder, as the Glory of the Land) and Dryden (Shakespear's Freind) as mentors to EB 's performance in...

She used the writing of the pastoral to build a relationship with Tomhanick, Americanizing the topographical tradition to create a suitable backdrop for the life of a poet. Her work includes meditations on death...

Like most of her peers, MMB maintained a lively correspondence. Some of it is reproduced in A House of Letters, edited by Ernest Betham (though he prints more letters to than from her). She...

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.

AB 's comedy The Widdow Ranter; or, The History of Bacon in Virginia, the first play to be set in British North America, had a posthumous performance at Drury Lane which may have been...

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...

She praised Creech's version (the first available in English) as making ancient learning available to women, whose education (according to the scanted Customs of the Nation) keeps women from reading great writers...

Apart from many more or less creatively distant imitations, AB produced several actual translations. She was invited by Dryden to contribute to...

The idea had been that Jack and Suzan Robbins should select a boarding school for Sibylle and have her to stay for the holidays. Instead, with the money provided by her family and trustees, they...

HB 's mock epithalamium is a close parody of Dryden 's Alexander's Feast, and had the ROYAL on her title-page printed upside-down. She brings together in her sights the prince as an individual...

JB writes to one male friend (my Adopted Brother) on his approaching marriage, not to congratulate but to dissuade. She reflects her intimate knowledge of the work of Katherine Philips and Abraham Cowley

The full title-page makes clear how this is not a novel as understood today: A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies; or Love and Virtue Recommended: In a Collection of Instructive Novels. Related After a Manner...

A Mrs Aubin, probably PA , received the profits from a benefit performance of Dryden 's The Spanish Friar at Lincoln's Inn Fields .

SLP was one of the contributors to The Nine Muses, the all-female anthology of elegies on the death of Dryden which was edited by Delarivier Manley , and published in 1700. She expressed some...

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...