Elizabeth Singer Rowe

11 September 1674 - 20 February 1737

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, 2013.

Full profile

Connections

Connections Sort ascending	Author name	Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence	Harriet Corp	The preface discusses what makes a religious novel. Corp suspects her work is not a novel because of its lack of a love-plot. But if she must be classed with novel-writers, she will submit with...
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	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, 1808, 2 vols. prelims Her surviving works show the influence of Elizabeth Singer Rowe , who shares her heightened devotional style in both verse and...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence	Mary Deverell	The additional material keeps up the feminist interest. On Thanksgiving is headed by a quotation from Elizabeth Rowe , and offers examples of thankfulness in female worthies of the Bible, like Deborah, Judith, Esther...
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Elstob	Begun in order to help the work of a female student, this work reiterates more strongly EE 's plea for opening the arena of scholarship to women. For examples of poetic practice she turns to...
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. 4th ed., Holdsworth and Ball, 1829. 30 Women's writing on pious topics was important to her...
Friends, Associates	Anne Finch	AF enjoyed personal friendships with a number of distinguished men, among them Bishop Thomas Ken . She valued female friendship very highly; women friends figure prominently in her poetry. Lady Catherine Jones , to whom...
Friends, Associates	Mary Chandler	MC seems to have become the real friend of several women of higher rank than herself, some of whom moved from the position of her customers to that of her patrons: they included Lady Hertford
Friends, Associates	Catherine Talbot	CT met the widowed Duchess of Somerset (better known by her former title of Lady Hertford ), who had been a patron of Elizabeth (Singer) Rowe , and was herself an amateur writer. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990. 215
Friends, Associates	Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford	The young Frances Thynne grew up in a literary ambience. Her early friends included Frances Worsley, later Lady Carteret (who apparently patronised women writers later, when her husband was Viceroy of Ireland). Family friends from...
Friends, Associates	Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford	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...
Friends, Associates	Penelope Aubin	It is not known that PA had writing friends or moved in literary circles. Though the Feminist Companion and other sources call her a friend of Elizabeth Singer Rowe , this is based on a...
Family and Intimate relationships	Elizabeth Thomas	He had published a poem in praise of Elizabeth Singer , and wrote to ET after her first publication. Lipking, Joanna. “Fair Originals: Women Poets in Male Commendatory Poems”. Studies in the Eighteenth Century: Papers Presented at the . . . David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Vol. 7 , No. 12:2, 1988, pp. 58-72. 67, 71n19 He was a Welsh barrister, son of a close friend of ET's maternal...
Family and Intimate relationships	Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford	The writer Elizabeth Singer Rowe was, says a recent commentator, like an honorary aunt to the young Frances Thynne. Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013. 14

Timeline

No timeline events available.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.