Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | Lady Mary Pierrepont (later Wortley Montagu)
wrote an imitation of A Voyage to the Island of Love at the age of about fourteen. |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | EOB
writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld
for praising Elizabeth Rowe
. She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington
is the real author of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Matilda Betham | Catharine Macaulay
, she insists, was pleasing and delicate in her person, and a woman of great feeling and indisputable abilities, though the democratic spirit of her writings has made them fall into disrepute. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Beverley | The title-page further develops the ship image of the title into a full-blown allegory, a kind of commercialised version of the voyages to an island of love depicted by Madeleine de Scudéry
, Aphra Behn |
Textual Features | Mathilde Blind | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Burke | A quotation from Shakespeare
's The Tempest intruces an opening scene of storm and shipwreck on a lonely western coast. The only survivor, a six-month-old baby girl in a cradle, is rescued with a gold... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Burnet | This marriage gave EB
a family of five stepchildren (bequeathed to her care by their own mother when she was close to death). They were three boys (all of whom went on to careers ranking... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Calderwood | MC
's brother, another James Steuart
, was educated at school and university and on the Grand Tour. He married Lady Frances Wemyss
in 1743, and two years later, because she was ill with smallpox... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Carter | EC
had promised Catherine Talbot
that she would undertake the project of making a scholarly translation of the Enchiridion by Epictetus
. This work of ancient Greek stoic philosophy was something of a favourite with... |
Dedications | Emily Frederick Clark | EFC
published by subscription a volume of Poems: Consisting Principally of Ballads, dedicated to Lady Lonsdale
(eldest grand-daughter of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
). OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Clark, Emily Frederick. Poems: Consisting Principally of Ballads. F. C. and J. Rivington. prelims |
Textual Features | Jane Collier | The commonplace-book throws light on Collier's other extant writings as well. A casual mention of what Sally calls the Turba proves definitively that at least one neologism in The Cry stemmed not from her but... |
Friends, Associates | William Congreve | As a young man Congreve formed a friendship with the older and distinguished Dryden
. He later belonged to the Whig Kit-Cat Club
, and counted most of its members among his friends, while remaining... |
death | William Congreve | His hitherto discreet partner the young Duchess of Marlboroughmade herself conspicuous by her public mourning. Harris, Frances. A Passion for Government: The life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. Clarendon. 276 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Louisa Stuart Costello | These first two volumes were not well-received. The Athenæum reviewer suggested that the dust of the road is ill-exchanged by Miss Costello for the dust of the library. Athenæum. J. Lection. 857 (1844): 287 |
Occupation | Edmund Curll | Commentators seem unanimously to have believed Pope
's pamphlet claim that he dosed Curll with an emetic to punish him for illicitly publishing Court Poems on 26 March 1716—though since Pope also claimed to have... |
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