Isaac Watts

Lady Hertford wrote that a certain distrust of her own judgement made her slow in the choice of a friend; but when that choice is made, my attachments are too strong to be easily broken...

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

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...

These poems follow in the footsteps of Isaac Watts .

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...

Her funeral was an Anglican service, which, says Marilyn L. Brooks in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, she would not have approved of. But she was buried five days after her death in...

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...

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 .

RL learned to read for herself before anyone was prepared to teach her. She had some books already, and when an uncle gave her a sixpence she bought a copy of Isaac Watts 's Hymns...

Amazement quotes Isaac Watts on its title-page. Its protagonist, Jocelyn, younger brother of an earl, has married a poor woman and left her behind to bear their child while he went to India to make...

The novel, which quotes Isaac Watts on its title-page and is again set in Ireland, adds gothic touches to a domestic story. While shut up in a country house the heroine reads Richardson 's Clarissa.

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.

Elizabeth Singer (later ESR ) was courted by several men. Whether or not she was seriously pursued by either Dunton or Prior (both worldly figures), her suitors included at least two dissenting clergymen. The Rev....

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...

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...