James Hervey

This follows up and reinforces her Antinomianism Unmasked, but is written ad hominem. She associates with Huntington the Rev. Mr. Ryland, Senior, who must be John Collett Ryland (1723-92). After quoting Huntington

Her non-religious poems show her a confident, versatile, accomplished writer. She casts a net of allusion widely—Milton , Gray , Edward Young . She imitates Pope on solitude, writes first of James Hervey 's...

Judith Stevens (later JSM ) composed her earliest-dated extant writing (published in June 1794 in the Massachusetts Magazine): Reflections in the Manner of Hervey —Occasioned by the Death of an Infant Sister.

Here JJ mixed the intellectual or spiritual with the practical: the same page bears a recipe for syllabub and the sentiment I had rather be a favourite of Angels than of men, but I believe...