Matthew Prior

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...

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 .Prior

MC shared her husband's network of high-level connections in circles of Jacobites and Jacobite sympathisers. She was a friend of the writers Pope , Prior , Swift , and Mary Barber , and of the...

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...

It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young

The title-page quotes supposedly from Pope but actually from Prior : Nor tears that wash out sin, can wash out shame. A news-item printed in the preliminary pages, allegedly from the Morning Post of...

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

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.

In the first of this group of poems, Melissa declares her own inferiority to Fidelia (with a brief survey of other poets including Pope , Buckingham , Prior , Dryden and Finch ).

This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior on the title-page. The running head throughout the volume uses a different title: Poems on Various and Select Occasions. The volume...