Pulter, Lady Hester. Poems, Emblems, and The Unfortunate Florinda. Eardley, AliceEditor , Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies , 2014.
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Alice Eardley
Standard Name: Eardley, Alice
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Birth | Lady Hester Pulter | Hester Ley (later LHP
) was born in sweet Hibernie where I first had life: The Oxford Dictionary... |
| Literary responses | Lady Hester Pulter | Alice Eardley
reads LHP
's romance as contributing to the work of this genre as a sustained proto-feminist exploration of the place of women in contemporary society. Pulter, Lady Hester. “Introduction”. Poems, Emblems, and The Unfortunate Florinda, edited by Alice Eardley, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014, pp. 1 - 40. 32 |
| Publishing | Lady Hester Pulter | One poem celebrates an incident from 1646: a young royalist lady whose beloved had died in battle refused to live without him and shot herself dead with a pistol. Pulter, Lady Hester. Poems, Emblems, and The Unfortunate Florinda. Eardley, AliceEditor , Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies , 2014. 143-6 |
| Textual Production | Lady Hester Pulter | In the same volume as her poems, LHP
's scribe copied the first part of The Unfortunate Florinda. Pulter herself made some corrections, and her unfinished draft of the second part, on loose sheets... |
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