Isaac Watts

Her favourite topics—religious devotion, social interaction, and landscape description—are frequently linked. She hopes that contemplating the beauties of nature will lead her thoughts to their Creator, or draws moral lessons from particular natural effects, like...

ESR 's friend Lady Hertford and her admirer Isaac Watts published, by her desire, the first of her posthumous works: Devout Exercises of the Heart.

Frances Thynne, later Hertford, began letter-writing at an early age. She was eleven when her grandfather was glad to find her in an hopeful way of being a good scribe, and twelve when her...

They later reached print in the Miscellaneous Works of Elizabeth Rowe and in a posthumous publication by Watts . The author's manuscript title is longer: Verses to the Memory of Mrs. Rowe who dy'd of...

Frances Hertford and Elizabeth Singer Rowe had each urged the other to publish her work. After Rowe's death Hertford joined with Isaac Watts in posthumous editing of Rowe for print.

This printed version of EB 's diary was Abbreviated and Reduced under some Proper Heads. Chronological order operates within each topic-section but not overall. The publicising of EB 's private writings was handled with...

The full title of the publication, beginning An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury, who died, May the 11th, 1720. Aged 76. Chiefly collected out of her own diary, goes...

As the author of The Favourite of Nature, MAK published her third novel, Trials: A Tale: without dedication this time, but with a quotation on the title-page from Isaac Watts .

ES published a novel entitled Satan Finds, about post-war moral and social issues in rapidly changing Britain.

ST published with Buckland a sixpenny pamphlet, A Comment on Dr Watts 's Divine Songs for Children.

The fifth edition of Horae Lyricae by Isaac Watts included at the back of the volume Lady Hertford 's Written in a Blank Leaf of Mr. Watt's Poems.

She does not eschew politics on account of her readers' youth, but delivers an anti-war and anti-imperial message: The finest sight that could possibly be exhibited to me on earth, would be not a great...

NRS opens her story with Jane Fairfax as a little orphan growing up in the family of Colonel and Mrs Campbell, whose naughty daughter Euphrasia is a likable foil to her throughout. She ends it...

HG admired the English religious writer Isaac Watts . Much of her poetry and many of her prose essays have religious themes; several are commemorative in function. Her prose can be as imaginative as her...

The same month Benjamin Colman 's tribute was published on the front page of the Boston Weekly News-Letter. In March, the Gentleman's Magazine had already printed a notice of Rowe's death and a...