Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Alexander Pope
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Standard Name: Pope, Alexander
As well as being a translator, critic, and letter-writer, AP
was the major poetic voice of the earlier eighteenth century, an influence on almost everyone who wrote poetry during his lifetime or for some years afterwards.
EBB
's early immersion in fairy stories and popular tales was followed by a more ambitious course of reading that began around the age of seven with history, classical poetry, and some of Shakespeare
's...
Education
Robert Browning
Like Alexander Pope
, Browning was an autodidact, educating himself in his father's vast library. In 1828 he began reading Greek at London University
but dropped out in his second term.
Thomas, Donald. Robert Browning: A Life Within Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
10, 18-19
Education
Tabitha Tenney
Whether or not TT
's education was Puritanical (most sources about her life have no higher status than gossip) she was well read in the emergent canon of English literature, from Shakespeare
and Milton
through...
Dedications
Catharine Trotter
She had begun work on these remarks during the winter of 1739. They appeared anonymously, dedicated to Pope
, in tribute to his argument about the congruence of self-love and benevolence. According to Thomas Birch
death
Joan Whitrow
She was buried, according to her own instructions in the garden of Mathias Perkins
, her executor,
“People. Joan Whitrow”. The Twickenham Museum.
beside the main road in Twickenham, across from the theatre. Her burial place was magnificently marked, in...
Anthologization
Anne Finch
Pope
selected for his and Bernard Lintot
's anthology, Poems on Several Occasions, a poem he addressed to AF
, as well as her responding poem, and half a dozen more by her.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press.
Finch, Anne. The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems: A Critical Edition. Editors McGovern, Barbara and Charles H. Hinnant, University of Georgia Press.
68-70
Foxon, David F. Pope and the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade. Editor McLaverty, James, Clarendon Press.
An Advertisement in the volume itself is uncharacteristically humble in tone for MJ
. It disclaims ambition and says it was quite accidental, that her thoughts ever rambled into rhyme. It calls her writings the...