Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Laurence Eusden
Standard Name: Eusden, Laurence
Connections
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Occupation | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Among writers who received Lady Hertford's patronage were Elizabeth Singer Rowe
, Elizabeth Boyd
, Elizabeth Carter
, Mary Chandler
, Isaac Watts
, Laurence Eusden
(for whom she set topics of occasional poems), James Thomson |
Publishing | Judith Cowper Madan | Pattison died of smallpox in July this year, aged about twenty-one. |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Boyd | EB
offers original, discriminating praise for women's writing: Susanna Centlivre
(her inspiration, she says), Eliza Haywood
(though she regrets her exposure of women's faults), Aphra Behn
, and Delarivier Manley
, whom she calls the... |
Timeline
Late September 1730
The death of Laurence Eusden
activated interest in the question of who would be next Poet Laureate; many despised both leading candidates, Stephen Duck
and Colley Cibber
.