Wiseman, Jane. “A Fairy Tale, Inscrib’d, to the Honourable Mrs. W— With Other Poems (1917)”. Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, 1700-1740, edited by William Christmas, Pickering and Chatto, pp. 34-46.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | A. Woodfin | The title-page quotes Matthew Prior
. AW
claims to have written her whimsical dedication to Pythagoras
(at the insistence of Lowndes
that she should dedicate to somebody) after a dream about the transmigration of souls... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Wiseman | Her poems, full of character and ingenuity, spring from social interchange. The title piece is a longish, narrative, occasional poem, Sent with a Pair of China Basons Wiseman, Jane. “A Fairy Tale, Inscrib’d, to the Honourable Mrs. W— With Other Poems (1917)”. Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, 1700-1740, edited by William Christmas, Pickering and Chatto, pp. 34-46. 34 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Tollet | The volume opens with translations from classical authors, and includes two psalms translated into Latin. Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University. 51 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's book ownership qualifies her as a collector in a way that few of her female contemporaries were, though since she left her collection to her scholarly nephew George it is hard to separate... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Thomas | The quotations that head her chapters range through more than a dozen well-known male names from Shakespeare
through Racine
in French, Prior
and Pope
to Sterne
and Burke
, plus a couple of unidentified women.... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Smythies | The title-page bears a quotation from Prior
's verse romance Henry and Emma, but SS
lays explicit claim, too, to a canonical tradition of prose fiction. The book begins with a series of tales... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Seward | |
Textual Features | Mary Savage | It is a poem highly characteristic of her manner: a moral tale featuring a personified quality, humorous, ironic, and written in octosyllabic couplets reminiscent of Swift
or Prior
. Prudence and Oeconomy are the daughters... |
Textual Features | Mary Savage | The opening poem, Nothing New, situates the anxieties of authors in regard to critics in the tradition of anxieties of lovers: both are right to be anxious. The contents include an English translation of... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Elizabeth Singer (later ESR
) engaged in a correspondence, light-hearted at least on his side, with the poet Matthew Prior
, who flirted with her and made fun of her godliness. Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang. 79, 85 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | ESR
enjoyed important friendships from around the age of twenty with Anne Finch, Lady Winchilsea
, and Lady Hertford
. Finch was twelve years older than ESR
, and Hertford twenty-five years younger. They each... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | |
Publishing | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | ESR
often sent her poetry to her friends in the course of her letters. Many poems later included in Letters Moral and Entertaining (published in 1729-32) are to be found in Lady Hertford
's letter-book... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Her narrative, in iambic couplets, was influenced, as most biblical re-tellings were, both by Milton
's Paradise Lost and by Matthew Prior
's Solomon (which elsewhere she praised in verse). Lori A. Davis Perry
suggests... |
Wealth and Poverty | Radagunda Roberts | She left the stock, the house, and several keepsakes to her sister, to her nephew Alfred William both her inkstand and her copy of John Hawkesworth
's translation of Fénelon
's Télémaque (apparently recognizing William... |
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