| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Anne Dacier | Homer's current English poetic translator, Pope
, though he sets out to surpass Dacier and argues that she has left him plenty of room to do so, also cites her approvingly in a number of cases. Foulon, Éric. “La critque de l’<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Iliade</span> d’Anne Dacier dans l’<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Iliade</span> d’Alexander Pope”. Littératures classiques: les époux Dacier, edited by Christine Dousset-Seiden and Jean-Philippe Grosperrin, Honoré Champion, pp. 157-92. 166ff |
| Textual Production | Anne Dacier | |
| Literary responses | Anne Dacier | A modern biographer thinks she might have been more appreciative of Pope's opinions if she had better understood his English. Spencer, Samia I., editor. Writers of the French Enlightenment I. Gale. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Damer | Her mother, born Lady Caroline Campbell
, was a daughter of John Campbell, later fourth Duke of Argyll
, and of the former Mary Bellenden
(Maid of Honour and friend of Alexander Pope
). Lady... |
| Publishing | Mary Davys | Alexander Pope
is listed first among non-aristocratic subscribers; others include Soame Jenyns
, Mrs Duncombe (probably mother of the later writer Susanna Duncombe), and |
| Literary responses | Mary Davys | Whether for The Accomplish'd Rake or for Davys's whole record, this journal (which was associated with Pope
's various literary battles) printed on 15 July 1731 a piece sneering at her for writing scandal and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Delany | Her uncle George Granville, Lord Lansdowne
, was a statesman under Queen Anne
, a distinguished amateur poet, and a friend of Alexander Pope
. To MD
's parents Lansdowne was the head of the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Deverell | |
| Textual Production | Ella Hepworth Dixon | It was titled after Alexander Pope
(the moving toyshop of the heart, when a toyshop stocked fashionable stuff for adults) in a line later near-echoed by W. B. Yeats
. This performance, at a... |
| Publishing | Sarah Dixon | SD
reveals her gender in her preface merely by her use of pronouns. Her motive for publishing was a dire need of money. An unnamed benefactor in her family supplied the need, but she decided... |
| Occupation | John Donne | During the later seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries Donne's writings were largely forgotten or disapproved of. In June 1741 the London Magazine printed a regularised (to modern eyes butchered) version of Goe, and catche a... |
| Literary responses | May Drummond | Thomas Story
said that at the beginning of her preaching career MD
had a Turn of Expression . . . very taking to most Hearers, especially the more polite sort of both Sexes, Story, Thomas. 720 |
| Literary responses | Ruth Fainlight | The younger poet Helen Dunmore
, reviewing this book, found RF
's voice capable of being cutting as well as lyrical, particularly when addressing the topics of the apparatus of femininity, and of growing older.A... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Fanshawe | One of the poems, a delightful Ode which imitates or parodies several well-known passages in various works by Gray
, was written not by CF
but by her friend Mary Berry
, some time before... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Fay | Her range of reference runs from Pope
on the one hand to, on the other, Ann Radcliffe
and an anonymous answerer of Hannah More
, the author of Nubilia in Search of a Husband. Forster, E. M., and Eliza Fay. “Introductory Note”. Original Letters from India, Hogarth Press, pp. 7-24. 10 |
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