Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Carter | |
| Textual Production | Amelia Beauclerc | It is in four volumes, with a title-page quotation from Pope
about how a work cannot be faultless. |
| Textual Production | Samuel Johnson | SJ
published his anonymous satirical poem London; it was at first ascribed to Pope
. Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, Princeton University Press. 1: 15n2 |
| Textual Production | Winifred Peck | WP
published a volume of memoirs about her educational experience: A Little Learning, or a Victorian Childhood (of which title the opening phrase comes from Alexander Pope
). The date comes from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Helen Maria Williams | |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | In an unpublished poetic Fragment of an 'Essay on Woman', the teenaged Elizabeth Barrett
countered Pope
's An Essay on Man, proclaiming that even in literature woman stands the equal of her Master Man. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Fragment of an ’Essay on Woman’”. Studies in Browning and His Circle, Vol. 12 , pp. 11-12. 11 Hoag, Eleanor. “Note on ’Fragment of an ‘Essay on Woman’’”. Studies in Browning and His Circle, Vol. 12 , pp. 7-9. 7 |
| Textual Production | Mary Seymour Montague | It is likely though not absolutely certain that the author was really female. Her pseudonym suggests Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
(who had died nine years earlier, and whom this poem praises as the only woman... |
| Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Each issue of To the Imitator was priced at sixpence. One appeared through a trade publisher, James Roberts
, and one through a mercury, Anne Dodd
. Both these were pamphlet-producers who offered... |
| Textual Production | Harriette Wilson | When reprinted in four volumes, the Memoirs had a quotation from Pope
on the title-page (Tis from high life, high characters are drawn) Wilson, Harriette. Memoirs of Harriette Wilson. J. J. Stockdale. prelims |
| Textual Production | Anne Dacier | Her French version became the basis for the English one by Ozell
, Broome
, and Oldisworth
the next year, which in turn was much used by Pope
in his poetic rendering, 1715 (which she... |
| Textual Production | Fanny Fern | She published a number of collections from her columns. The titles of some of these later works, which included Folly as it Flies; Hit at by Fanny Fern (1868—with a title allusion to the arch-satirist... |
| Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | Judith Cowper's To Mr Pope
—Written in his Works, 1720, composed for Pope's first published collection of his poetry (1717), and transcribed by Ashley Cowper
, appeared in print the year after The Flower-Piece... |
| Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | Pope
accused SC
of writing an attack on him entitled The Catholick Poet, which was probably written by John Oldmixon
. Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen. 38-40 |
| Textual Production | Mary Matilda Betham | Like most of her peers, MMB
maintained a lively correspondence. Some of it is reproduced in A House of Letters, edited by Ernest Betham
(though he prints more letters to than from her). She... |
| Textual Production | Anne Dacier |
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