Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Elizabeth Singer Rowe
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Standard Name: Rowe, Elizabeth Singer
Birth Name: Elizabeth Singer
Married Name: Elizabeth Rowe
Pseudonym: Philomela
Pseudonym: The Pindarick Lady
Pseudonym: The Pindarical Lady
Pseudonym: The Author of Friendship in Death
ESR
wrote witty, topical, satirical poetry during the 1690s, followed later in life by letters, essays, fiction (often epistolary), and a wide range of poetic modes, often though not invariably with a moral or religious emphasis. Her reputation as a moral and devotional writer during her lifetime and for some time afterwards stood extremely high. Current critical debate is establishing the element of proto-feminist or amatory fiction (what Paula Backscheider
calls experimental, subversive, and transgressive) in her prose against the didactic-devotional element.
Backscheider, Paula R. Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Charoba is CR
's retelling of a story which she almost certainly found in Elizabeth Singer Rowe
's History of Joseph. She builds here on Rowe (rather than on Bishop Lowth
) in suggesting...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anne Finch
Although AF
is often thought of as a writer of pastoral, on account of the fame of A Noctural Reverie, this mode is fairly rare in her work. She is a very social poet....
Intertextuality and Influence
Sarah Savage
The diary also records SS
's delight in such biographical religious texts as the Lives of Mrs. Bury
, Mrs. Rowe
, Mrs. Walker
.
Williams, Sir John Bickerton, and Sarah Savage. Memoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Savage. Holdsworth and Ball.
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Women's writing on pious topics was important to her...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB
's first hymn presents the world, as God creates and adorns it and pronounces it good, as a female body.
She is also alert to female precedents. Her Verses on Mrs Rowe recall...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anne Francis
AF
writes in the style of mid-century poets Gray
and especially Collins
, whose names she specifically invokes and whose words she echoes, along with classics of the past like Petrarch
. She records an...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anne Steele
AS
was said to have begun writing poetry at a very early age.
Steele, Anne. The Works of Mrs. Anne Steele. Munroe, Francis and Parker.
prelims
Her surviving works show the influence of Elizabeth Singer Rowe
, who shares her heightened devotional style in both verse and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Charlotte McCarthy
Her Letters Moral and Entertaining seem written on the model of Elizabeth Singer Rowe
's Friendship in Death. One is from a departed Spirit, to his Friend in this World.
McCarthy, Charlotte. Justice and Reason. printed for the author.
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Those to Clara...
Intertextuality and Influence
Catherine Talbot
Her recent visit to the Duchess of Somerset
(formerly Lady Hertford, whose little grandson and great-nephew were the good and naughty boys of the story) had exposed her to the influence of Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Intertextuality and Influence
Adelaide O'Keeffe
This book might be regarded as a work of ancient Jewish history; it is also highly relevant to experiments in the possible reach of the historical novel back into ancient times. As a biblical paraphrase...
Literary responses
Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
The writing of verse began in Frances Thynne's life almost as early as the writing of letters: it must have been a poem rather than a letter that evoked from Elizabeth Singer Rowe
the response:...
Literary responses
Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
Elizabeth Rowe
, in proposing that she should pass this, in manuscript, to Watts, said he would be as proud as if an angel had given him a wreath of immortal amaranthus.
Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan.
Curll was apprenticed sometime around 1697 to 1699, and set up in business for himself by early 1706.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press.
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He became a particularly agile entrepreneur with a nose for new market niches and an...
Occupation
Elizabeth Tipper
After this period ET
's prospects improved, to include employment, social life, and Honourable Friendship, but then another dark cloud intervened.
Tipper, Elizabeth. The Pilgrim’s Viaticum. Printed by J. Wilkins.
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At the time of publication she was working hard, since she spent...
Publishing
Elizabeth Elstob
Its full title is An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory
, Anciently used in the English-Saxon Church. Giving an Account of the Conversion of the English from Paganism to Christianity. It...
