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...
Dedications
Elizabeth Tipper
The title-page continues: The Pilgrim's Viaticum; or, The Destitute, but not Forlorn, Being a Divine Poem, Digested from Meditations upon the Holy Scripture. The title-page quotes Psalm 119, about loving God's law. This...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Tipper
ET
had Lady Coventry
as a patron. A number of literary men wrote prefatory verses for her book, but the only identifiable one with an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Joseph Perkins