Edward Young

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Standard Name: Young, Edward

Connections

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Wealth and Poverty Mary Julia Young
The publisher J. F. Hughes went bankrupt this year.
Lloyd, Nicola. “Mary Julia Young. A Biographical and Bibliographical Study”. Romantic Textualities, No. 18, 1 June 2008– 2025.
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Writing to the RLF, Young emphasized the literary merits of her relation Edward Young rather than her own, calling him one of the brightest...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Hester Mulso Chapone
When Richardson offered her a list of examples of filial disobedience, she replied that no doubt an equally heinous list could be produced of parental oppression. With Carter she mulled over religious and literary questions...
Textual Production Mary Deverell
The title-page had a quotation from Edward Young , and carried the information that MD was selling copies from her own house. MD dedicated the play to the Duchess of Rutland .
Textual Production George Eliot
GE finished her last major article for the Westminster (on eighteenth-century poet Edward Young ) in December 1856. Despite Chapman 's offer to pay her twelve guineas a sheet from now on, her last work...
Textual Production Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson
EGF submitted writing to periodicals under the pseudonyms Laura or Arachne. The postscript to Edward Young 's Resignation. In Two Parts, and a Postscript, published in London and Philadelphia in 1764, addressed to...
Textual Production Elizabeth Bonhote
She published the work in two volumes, with William Lane of the future Minerva Press ,
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
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and for the first time put her name (Mrs. Bonhote of Bungay, Suffolk) on the title-page...
Textual Production Medora Gordon Byron
It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young
Publishing Mary Julia Young
MJY translated Lindorf and Caroline; or, The Danger of Credulity in March 1803, from the German allegedly of Karl Gottlieb Cramer , though more likely of Christiane Benedicte Eugenie Naubert . She dedicated it to...
Occupation Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
LMWM acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage and Henry Fielding , but also Edward Young and Samuel Boyse . Books to which...
Intertextuality and Influence Harriet Corp
HC 's first title-page bears a quotation from Edward Young . Her introductory address apologises for imperfections which she trusts the critical reader to overlook, and says she means her work primarily for the younger...
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 Anna Maria Mackenzie
The epigraph on the first title-page is the sonnet by Queen Elizabeth beginning The toppe of hope, now generally known by the title of Doubt of Future Foes. The second volume's title-page is...
Intertextuality and Influence Harriet Corp
The title-page quotes Edward Young . HC comments approvingly on the spread of education for the poor, who are now admitted to that equality which God ordains in intellectual improvement.
Corp, Harriet. Familiar Scenes, Histories, and Reflections. Whittaker, 1821.
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The book's short...
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 Margaret Croker
The title-page quotes from Milton 's sonnet on his dead wife. The text quotes from Pope and Young . MC emphasises real, sincere emotion (her only recommendation, she says) in her dedication, in the advertisement...

Timeline

May 1742-January 1746: Edward Young published his long poem of mourning...

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May 1742-January 1746

Edward Young published his long poem of mourning (an influence on succeeding poetry both pious and morbid), The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality.
London Magazine. C. Ackers.
(June 1742): 312; (April 1746): 212

12 May 1759: Edward Young published Conjectures on Original...

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12 May 1759

Edward Young published Conjectures on Original Composition. In a letter to the author of Sir Charles Grandison; a second volume followed the next month.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Texts

Young, Edward. Night Thoughts. Phillips and Sampson, 1847.
Young, Edward. The Complaint; or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. R. Dodsley, 1745, 9 parts.