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Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | The earliest form of Pope
's Dunciad launched his second attack on LMWM
, implying her membership in the class of rapacious whores. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon. 277 |
Reception | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Pope
attacked LMWM
's husband
's business practices in his Epistle to Lord Bathurst. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon. 333 |
Residence | Janet Schaw | She travelled with her brother Alexander
, heading for his post on St Kitts; she may have intended to live with him there (having no male relations left at home since her father's death)... |
Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | Her courtship letters, says Rumbold, are insecure, unhappy, and demanding. Rumbold, Valerie. “The Poetic Career of Judith Cowper: An Exemplary Failure?”. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, edited by Donald C. Mell, University of Delaware Press, pp. 48-66. 62 |
Textual Features | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
says she was captivated by the chivalrous and romantic spirit which breathes from every page of . . . history. Porden, Eleanor Anne. Coeur de Lion. G. and B. Whittaker. 1: xv |
Textual Features | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the... |
Textual Features | Mary Leapor | Overall, ML
's poetic forms are those current in her day. Her model was Pope
, whom she admired as an artist and identified with as having, like herself, physical disabilities to contend with. But... |
Textual Features | Jane Collier | The Art of Tormenting is often referred to as a novel, but its genre is really that of the spoof instruction manual: the genre of Pope
's The Art of Sinking in Poetry and Swift |
Textual Features | Mercy Otis Warren | An Advertisement pretends to complain that the important business of entertainment is currently being inconveniently interrupted by politics. Its irony, however, is contradicted by a prologue quoting Pope
on the use of satire as an... |
Textual Features | L. E. L. | This novel provides a satirical portrait of high society in early eighteenth-century England. It centres on Henrietta, Countess of Marchmont, an upper-class orphan enduring a loveless marriage and imperilled by her first visit to... |
Textual Features | Clotilde Graves | The Compleat Housewife, a comic ghost story, brings together a Southern American belle (who has married an English baronet) with his ancestress Lady Deborah Corbryan The story makes use of recipes drawn, says CG |
Textual Features | Janet Little | She consistently takes a challenging stance in face of authority. Ironically (in view of Johnson's championing of women writers and Burns's snobbish attitude about herself) she uses Samuel Johnson
as a symbol of the tyrant-critic... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Nooth | The nobility of the skin means a class system based on race as others are based on birth or money. Nooth's translation has no preliminary pages, no address by translator to reader. Grégoire cites his... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Boyd | EB
offers original, discriminating praise for women's writing: Susanna Centlivre
(her inspiration, she says), Eliza Haywood
(though she regrets her exposure of women's faults), Aphra Behn
, and Delarivier Manley
, whom she calls the... |
Textual Features | Clara Reeve |
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