Edward Cave

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Standard Name: Cave, Edward
Used Form: Mr Urban
Used Form: Sylvanus Urban

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Textual Production Jane Collier
The second of these criticisms was a letter in answer to Edward Cave , who had published in the Gentleman's Magazine the argument of a Swiss professor, Albrecht von Haller , that Clarissa was wrong...
Textual Production Sarah Dixon
SD 's subscription for her book of poems must have been nearly complete when Elizabeth Carter wrote to Edward Cave asking for any leftover copies of the proposals.
Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press.
236 n6
Textual Production Jane Brereton
JB dated her inscription to Queen Caroline of the first poem in a sixteen-page quarto issued by Cave as by a Lady: Merlin: A Poem . . . To which is added, The Royal...
Textual Production Fidelia
Fidelia made her final identified appearance in the Gentleman's Magazine, with two epistolary poems, Fidelia to Sylvius and Fidelia to Mr Urban.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 551, 555
Textual Production Samuel Johnson
It was printed by Edward Cave and published by Robert Dodsley .
Textual Production Jane Brereton
The Four Last Things in Christian theology are Death, Judgement, Heaven, and Hell. Cave had initially, untheologically, added Life at the beginning of the list, so JB 's poem is entitled Thoughts on Life, Death...
Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
This recently-founded publication, brainchild of Edward Cave , was the first example of the monthly periodical, the first to use the title magazine. EC 's earliest contribution, a riddle on subject of fire, was...
Textual Features Elizabeth Carter
As a youngster of twenty-one (in May 1739), EC addressed the eminent businessman Edward Cavebreezily, mingling the domestic and the literary.
Chisholm, Kate. “Bluestocking Feminism”. New Rambler, pp. 60-6.
63
In her mature correspondence with Elizabeth Montagu both writers discuss their...
Reception Elizabeth Carter
Joseph Highmore 's painting of her with book and laurel wreath, and John Fayram 's painting of her as a young Minerva in stylish armour with a copy of Plato , each of them associated...
Publishing Mary Barber
She had sent the poem nearly two years before this in a letter to Edward Cave .
Publishing Jane Brereton
In the Gentleman's Magazine, Edward Cave announced his competition for a poem on the busts of British worthies set up in Queen Caroline 's Cave or Grotto at Richmond.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
3 (1733): 208
Publishing Fidelia
Fidelia reappeared unmistakably in the Gentleman's Magazine with Fidelia to Sylvanus Urban, a verse epistle in her former jaunty style to the magazine's proprietor, Edward Cave.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 159
Publishing Fidelia
In the same Gentleman's Magazine issue that suggested she might be nothing but a disguise for the editor , appeared Fidelia 's To the unknown Gent [sic] who signs Sylvius.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 215
Publishing Jane Brereton
Edward Cave (for whom JB had been a regular contributor) posthumously published, by subscription, her Poems on Several Occasions . . . with Letters to her Friends, bearing the date of 1744.
Both The...
Publishing Mary Masters
The Gentleman's Magazine published, with her name, a poem by MM together with her self-defence (addressed to the editor, Sylvanus Urban ) against an attack in the London Magazine.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
9 (1739): 154
Carlson, Carl Lennart. The First Magazine. Brown University Press.
257

Timeline

January 1731: Edward Cave published the first number of...

Writing climate item

January 1731

Edward Cave published the first number of The Gentleman's Magazine: the first monthly periodical and longest-running British literary journal.

July 1734: The Gentleman's Magazine offered a prize...

Women writers item

July 1734

The Gentleman's Magazine offered a prize for the best poem on the Four Last Things, or on one of them (Death, Judgement, Heaven, or Hell).

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