Alexander Pope

The report of her death may have been optimistic in calling her an actress of some celebrity at Covent garden and Drury lane Theatre. She worked as an entertainer of several kinds, acting in regular...

WLB 's sonnets, which formed the basis of his reputation as a poet, first appeared in 1789, five years after those of Charlotte Smith and shortly after her lavish, illustrated fifth edition. Bowles always denied...

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...

Pope mercilessly portrayed ET (then in debtors' prison) in the Dunciad.

From the late 1720s onwards, Lady Mary's life was punctuated by the regular appearance of new attacks by Alexander Pope in his poems: sometimes unmistakable, sometimes so concealed that probably only their immediate circles would...

She acted on her Jacobite principles in attending parliamentary debates, reading the memoirs of statesmen, and visiting Tory detainees in prison. Indeed, though she never questioned that men were intended to manage public affairs, she...

From the time she began writing her Jacobite credo in 1724, MC worked on constructing a domestic cult for the edification of family and friends in the Jacobite faith, in which archives, pictures and poetry...

This month Barber's teenage son Rupert was on duty all day to dispense copies to subscribers, at the painter's house in Covent Garden where he was a student or apprentice. The true publication date...

Pattison died of smallpox in July this year, aged about twenty-one. Subscribers to his posthumous poems included Pope , Lady Hertford , Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Laurence Eusden , Matthew Concanen , and Anthony Hammond

Hughes's first edition, 1713, was already equipped with a prefatory account of the lives of its protagonists, which weds their texts to the fictionalised tradition about them. It has in turn been edited by James E. Wellington

The Dodd version went through several slightly revised editions before and after 16 January 1735, when a Fifth Edition Corrected was advertised in response to Pope 's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot—a poem addressed to...

Fidelia reappeared in the Gentleman's Magazine with To a young Gentleman who had a fine Genius for Poetry, but who upon reading Mr Pope 's and Dr Swift 's Works, declined writing.

Her title-page presents the subscription as a matter of charity by mentioning the death of her father, It also quotes Pope 's self-deprecating apology for writing: I left no calling for this idle trade.

She had first translated this passage from the Metamorphoses at the age of sixteen; she says she did the published version at sixty-one. It was printed, like Pope 's imitations, with the Latin original on...

Alexander Pope is listed first among non-aristocratic subscribers; others include Soame Jenyns , Mrs Duncombe (probably mother of the later writer Susanna Duncombe), and John Barber (partner of the late Delarivier Manley ). The Bodleian Library