Latter, Mary. The Miscellaneous Works, in Prose and Verse. C. Pocock.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Fielding | This is the earliest serious piece of criticism on Clarissa. It takes the form of a letter from a fictional impartial observer to the novelist, reporting on public opinion as expressed in a series... |
Anthologization | Martha Fowke | Five poems by MF
(as Mrs. Fowke) appeared in good poetic company (with Pope
, Prior
, Susanna Centlivre
, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, and others) in Anthony Hammond
's A New Miscellany, published on 19 May 1720. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | |
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 |
Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | Another poem written not long afterwards and preserved not in The Family Miscellany but in other family papers is entitled Emma to Henry, Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press. 268 |
Textual Production | Delarivier Manley | Steele
provided managerial help (and money, and a prologue) towards its stage success. Ballaster, Ros. “Early Women Writers: Lives and Times. Delarivier Manley (c. 1663-1724)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol. 5 , No. 1, pp. 2-5. 3 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte McCarthy | The poems include reworkings of pastoral, occasional poems (one of them inscribed in a volume belonging to a friend), and comment on public affairs. The opening three, addressed to Chloe, are conventional in tone... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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