Alexander Pope

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...

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...

Jane, a widow whose only child is dead, decides to marry again, and picks the young Marquess of Montrath, heir to an earldom, whom she has first seen as a fellow visitor to the spunging-house...

The story follows its hero's unsurprising metamorphosis: he begins as the socially negligible James Treton, an orphan, assistant in an accoucheurs' and surgeon-apothecaries' practice, and ends as Arthur, Duke of Avon. It opens with nicely...

The novel which emerged from so much interference during composition is naive, exaggerated, and badly structured, but highly unusual, with great intensity in its writing. Its title-page quotes Thomas Holcroft , and its epigraphs to...

MM published by subscription her Poems on Several Occasions: the first volume of poems in English by a woman to be issued this way. Her surviving letters show that she put a lot of...

Her preface says that she cannot (like one of Pope 's dunces) plead request of friends as an excuse for publishing. She explains that she planned her work in the course of rambling through the...

FM published At Heart a Rake, a novel whose title comes from a famous pronouncement by Alexander Pope about the secret essence of every woman.

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...

The fictitious narrator begins by observing that while some may consider the story of someone of her station devoid of interest, she has been in contact all her life with cultivated ladies of the highest...

The Atalantis was read in several conflicting ways. Pope used it in his Rape of the Lock to exemplify the brief reading fads of the fashionable female world which was drawn to it because it...

Swift also, like his erstwhile allies Addison and Steele , was spurred by DM 's example to consternation over women's growing political activity. Though he was personally her friend, Swift undoubtedly aimed partly at her...

The poems that Judith Cowper wrote as an unmarried young woman suggest that she moved easily both in court and in literary circles. She probably met the poet Alexander Pope in Jervas 's studio. Pope...

The Family Miscellany, collected and transcribed by JCM 's brother Ashley Cowper , dated 1747 and now British Library MS Add. 28,101, includes plenty of poems by Ashley himself and plenty more ascribed to...

Though often submissive in attitudes, JCM was capable of satire or lampoon. The Receipt, an Imitation, dating from about 1720, lists the unsavoury ingredients that go to compose a blockhead Cambridge clergyman (as Pope