Alexander Pope

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...

The Dodd version went through several slightly revised editions before and after 16 January 1735, when a Fifth Edition Corrected was advertised in response to Pope 's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot—a poem addressed to...

Pope published what seems to have been the first salvo in his prolonged literary attack on LMWM : The Capon's Tale, which accuses her of passing off her lampoons as other people's.

Her poetry as a whole is conspicuous for its versatility. Her major early influences (Katherine Philips and Abraham Cowley ) were succeeded by Dryden . (She always denied any influence from Pope .) But...

The earliest form of Pope 's Dunciad launched his second attack on LMWM , implying her membership in the class of rapacious whores.

For centuries LMWM has been interpreted and re-interpreted, judged less often as writer than as an exemplar of the unacceptable female. Her fame and/or notoriety flourished during her lifetime, and posthumous publications kept it alive...

Pope attacked LMWM 's husband 's business practices in his Epistle to Lord Bathurst.

Pope 's Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace attacked LMWM and her husband together.

Pope 's Sober Advice from Horace attacked LMWM (under a variety of ingenious but permeable nicknames): to be even suggested in a poem of this pornographic tone was damaging.

Pope 's Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot made a particularly strong and memorable attack on LMWM 's friend Hervey and also herself.

Pope 's An Epistle to a Lady. Of the Characters of Women delineated a controlled and submissive female ideal (and again attacked LMWM ).

Verses Address'd to the Imitator of Horace, a satiric attack on and riposte to Pope which was probably composed by LMWM and Lord Hervey , appeared in two separate, anonymous, folio editions.

At this time LMWM met and established friendships with writers, artists, and people of learning: Pope , Gay , Charles Jervas , and the Venetian philosophe Antonio Conti .

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...

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...