British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1976
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Cicely Bulstrode | During CB
's lifetime Ben Jonson
attacked her by calling her both a fool and a whore. After her death, both he and John Donne
eulogized her morals and also her wit. |
Textual Features | Christine Brooke-Rose | |
Literary responses | Anne Bradstreet | This book appeared in a publisher's catalogue of 1657 listing the most marketable books in England. (The list included all the great male names, from Shakespeare
and Donne
to Crashaw
and Vaughan
, but only... |
Textual Production | Phyllis Bottome | It was published by John Lane
in London and by Houghton Mifflin Company
in Boston and New York. Although PB
had been interested in mental illness since childhood, the novel developed more directly from... |
Textual Production | Patricia Beer | PB
published Driving West: Poems, whose contents balance the urban and rural; its title suggests Donne
's Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, but the name this poem invokes is Henry Fielding
, the lawyer on circuit. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1976 Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research. 26 |
Reception | Mary Astell | Astell's late twentieth-century reputation as a feminist foremother led to a biography by Ruth Perry
(1986), a one-volume selection of her work edited by Bridget Hill
(The First English Feminist, 1986), and editions... |
Friends, Associates | Anne, Lady Southwell | The Southwell family had connections with the court and with London literary society. Anne Southwell's mother-in-law, Alice
(née Cornwallis), who was a cousin of the essayist William Cornwallis
, may have enabled Anne to meet... |
Textual Production | Anne, Lady Southwell | Both are replies to writing by men: the certain Southwell ascription answers Donne
's Newes from the very Country, and the almost-certain one to Overbury
's own Newes from Court. Details in the... |
Textual Production | Anne, Lady Southwell | ALS
wrote two letters in 1623 from Castle Poulnelong to eminent men in support of property rights claimed by a male family friend. These letters are now at Chatsworth in Derbyshire. Two extended poems... |
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