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Dedications | Mary Julia Young | The dedication to Mrs Trant
(presumably the same who also received a dedication from Charlotte Brooke
) mentions that she can boast of being allied toEdward Young
. In 2007 the reprint firm of... |
Dedications | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Rowe had used the phrase Epistles from the Dead to the Living about her own letters not long after her husband's death. Bigold, Melanie. “Elizabeth Rowe’s Fictional and Familiar Letters: Exemplarity, Enthusiasm, and the Production of Posthumous Meaning”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 29 , No. 1, pp. 1-14. 5 |
Education | Ann Yearsley | AY
's mother taught her to read, to think, and to question. Her brother taught her to write. Her family owned some books, notably Edward Young
's Night Thoughts, which she got to know almost by heart. Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996. 14 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Julia Young | MJY
claimed late in life to be the the only living relative of the respected poet and clergyman Edward Young
(1683-1765)—whose only child, Frederick Young
(1732-88), apparently never married. The poet, she says, was a... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Sheridan | In London they quickly acquired an influential and highly talented circle of friends, including Samuel Johnson
, Samuel Richardson
, Edward Young
, Frances Brooke
, Sarah Scott
, and Sarah Fielding
. Richardson admired... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Steele | Her non-religious poems show her a confident, versatile, accomplished writer. She casts a net of allusion widely—Milton
, Gray
, Edward Young
. She imitates Pope
on solitude, writes first of James Hervey
's... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Talbot | This essay, an answer to number 11, which had taken the form of a letter from To-day, displays CT
's characteristic whimsical ingenuity. Night, claiming to be the elder sister of Today, defends dark... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs E. M. Foster | The novel parodies Germaine de Staël
's Corinne (which had appeared in French in 1807, in English in 1808). Chapters are supplied with epigraphs: some standard choices like Pope
and Cowper
, but also texts... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | The title-page quotes Edward Young
on the dangers, for a woman, of love. An Advertisement calls the author only an editor of a French original, but says so many changes have been made that little... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Francis | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Gilding | Referring to her three dead children EG
writes of Death: Thrice his darts flew. Pitcher, Edward W. “Eliza Gilding (Mrs. Daniel Turner): Some Facts and Inferences”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, Vol. 12 , No. 1, pp. 6-22. 19 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Yearsley | AY
's mother and elder brother both guided her early development towards bookishness. Their small store of books included Edward Young
's Night Thoughts, an importance influence on her poetry. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | The day was spent travelling from Glasgow to Inveraray. The writer throws in quotations and allusions (Edward Young
, the Bible, Macpherson
's Ossian and Homer
's Odyssey, Sterne
and Smollett |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Jacson | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Latter | The first letter, the earliest piece in the volume, was said to have been written seventeen years ago at the age of seventeen: to Myra, which suggests that ML
may have been one among... |