Latter, Mary. The Miscellaneous Works, in Prose and Verse. C. Pocock.
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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 | Mary Bryan | Since other poems bring Emma together with a man called Henry, this seems to allude to Matthew Prior
's once famous ballad Henry and Emma. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Latter | The title-page quotes Matthew Prior
about defying the herd of critics. Latter, Mary. The Miscellaneous Works, in Prose and Verse. C. Pocock. title-page |
Literary responses | Mary Caesar | She was just as insecure about her style and presentation in letters as in her journal, and elicited reassuring praise from Pope
, Prior, Swift
, Lord Orrery
, and Lord Lansdowne
. Rumbold, Valerie. “The Jacobite vision of Mary Caesar”. Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, edited by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, Batsford, pp. 178-98. 181-2 |
Occupation | Frances Reynolds | She was also already a painter on her own account. She had done a portrait of Joshua around 1746 (now in the Cottonian Collection in the city museum and art gallery of Plymouth) Reynolds, Sir Joshua. The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Editors Ingamells, John and John Edgcumbe, Yale University Press. 264 |
Occupation | Edmund Curll | Curll was apprenticed sometime around 1697 to 1699, and set up in business for himself by early 1706. Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press. 12, 22 |
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... |
politics | Mary Caesar | She acted on her Jacobite principles in attending parliamentary debates, reading the memoirs of statesmen, and visiting Tory detainees in prison. Indeed, though she never questioned that men were intended to manage public affairs, she... |
politics | Mary Caesar | From the time she began writing her Jacobite credo in 1724, MC
worked on constructing a domestic cult for the edification of family and friends in the Jacobite faith, in which archives, pictures and poetry... |
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... |
Publishing | Maria Barrell | This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior
on the title-page. Barrell, Maria. Reveries du Coeur. Dodsley, Walter, Owen, and Yeats. prelims |
Publishing | Anne Burke | A payment from the publisher of five guineas, with the same amount again to follow if the book earned it, made to Anne Ustick (or perhaps Urtick) suggests that this may have been AB |
Textual Features | Katherine Philips | In some sense, therefore, she dictated the terms of the anthology. Its full title was The Virgin Muse: Being a Collection of Poems from our Most Celebrated English Poets, designed for the use of... |
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... |
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