Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen.
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Reception | Joan Whitrow | The poet Pope
was later intrigued by this epitaph, but neither he nor Horace Walpole's friend William Cole
could find anything out about her, though Cole was sufficiently intrigued to transcribe her entire epitaph for... |
Reception | Eliza Haywood | Pope
's Dunciad featured EH
as a lewd sex-object being offered as prize in a contest among the (male) dunces or versifiers. Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen. 111 |
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 | 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 | 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 | |
Textual Features | Sarah Green | The tone of the work is conservative, leavened with an intelligent concern for development of independent thinking. Topics of various letters include Conduct and Conversation, Forbearance, Chastity, Truth, Employment of Time... |
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 | Martha Fowke | Manley's elegist hails the elder writer as Life of my Muse! Hill, Aaron, and William Bond, editors. The Plain Dealer. S. Richardson and A Wilde. 1: 447 |
Textual Features | Wendy Cope | Its very title establishes that for her a topic that matters “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Textual Features | Frances, Lady Norton | Memento Mori has a frontispiece depicting Lady Gethin
's happy death. In her dedicatory epistle, FLN
says that Gethin was not only my Only One, but in all Particulars an Extraordinary One. Frances, Lady Norton,. Memento Mori. J. Graves. prelims |
Textual Features | Anne Francis | An Argument explains the poem's source in Plutarch. AF
's hero, whose father was an associate of Alexander the Great
, is dead after many vicissitudes. His ashes make a triumphal progress by sea from... |
Textual Features | Mary Robinson | To demonstrate, as well as arguing for, mental equality, MR
learnedly surveys the course of political and literary history. She honours many women writers of the past (Aphra Behn
and Susanna Centlivre
as well... |
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