Pitcher, Edward W. Woman’s Wit. Edwin Mellen Press.
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Textual Features | Elizabeth Gilding | Edward Pitcher
describes these poems, the last identified from her pen, printed and apparently written soon after childbirth, as gloomy in tone. Pitcher, Edward W. Woman’s Wit. Edwin Mellen Press. 311 |
Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | |
Textual Features | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Her poetry as a whole is conspicuous for its versatility. Her major early influences (Katherine Philips
and Abraham Cowley
) were succeeded by Dryden
. (She always denied any influence from Pope
.) But... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Bentley | The poems appear in chronological order, written over the years since 1785, with a bumper year in 1789. EB
writes in various modes, using on the whole conventional and old-fashioned style and sentiment in each... |
Textual Features | Anna Seward | The series (completed in 1791) developed from AS
's strictures on John Weston
's contributions to a book entitled Records of the Woodmen of Arden. She compared Dryden
with Pope
to the advantage of... |
Textual Features | Frances Burney | Along with the sentimental and misunderstanding-prone lovers and the ridiculous esprit circle (which might so easily be taken to represent the Bluestockings), The Witlings features a women's working environment: a milliner's shop where seamstresses make... |
Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | Five hundred of JCM
's letters survive in manuscript. The correspondence between her and her husband
both before and after marriage (about 350 letters, from 13 October 1723) is held by the Bodleian Library
(MS... |
Textual Production | Margaret Holford | Published by Hookham and Carpenter
, this was a slim volume of 44 pages, with a title-page quotation from Pope
's Windsor Forest, and a handsome illustration of Gresford Lodge near Wrexham in Denbighshire... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Bishop | |
Textual Production | Catherine Hutton | In the same month that she visited London to arrange this publication (her debut as a named author) she also began on her next novel. Yet she wrote of The Miser Married: I have... |
Textual Production | Anna Seward | AS
drafted the first three books of an epic poem entitled Telemachus, adapted from François Fénelon
's Télémaque, 1699. (She also wrote a defence of Pope
's Homer
translations against the strictures of Joseph Spence
.) Lucas, Edward Verrall. A Swan and Her Friends. Methuen. 315-16 |
Textual Production | Mary Charlton | The novel is in four volumes, with a title-page quotation from Pope
about designing only in harmony with Nature, and a frontispiece showing the rescue of a fainting girl. Charlton, Mary. Phedora. Minerva Press. title-page |
Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | There was printed Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput, Written by Captain Gulliver; Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press. 200 Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen. 99 |
Textual Production | Aldous Huxley | Proper Studies (titled from Alexander Pope
), published in 1929, was AH
's first directly didactic, non-satirical novel. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Judith Sargent Murray | The future JSM
wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion. Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books. 95 |
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