Bigold, Melanie. “Elizabeth Rowe’s Fictional and Familiar Letters: Exemplarity, Enthusiasm, and the Production of Posthumous Meaning”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
29
, No. 1, pp. 1-14. 5n20
John Dunton
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Standard Name: Dunton, John
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Bathurst | The fuller title is An Expostulatory Appeal to the Professors of Christianity, Joyned in Community with Samuel Ansley. EB
says she made a proclamation to these people on the twentieth day of the eighth... |
| Occupation | Elinor James | He bound the first of his ten apprentices two years later. EJ
was involved in the business as soon as the care of her children left her time, and seems to have been its executive... |
| Reception | Elinor James | It may have been the same text that inspired John Dunton
in his autobiographical A Voyage Round the World, 1691, to class her as a high-flown, visionary prophet of impossibly fine results from James's... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | John Dunton
's The Athenian Mercury featured Platonick Love by Elizabeth Singer (later ESR
), a poem which very deliberately echoes Friendship by Katherine Philips
as well as treating favourite Philips themes. |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | The highly innovative and slightly shady publisher John Dunton
conducted some kind of professional relationship with Elizabeth Singer (later ESR
). Her father was upset by discovering about this in August 1695. Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang. 43 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | On that date the magazine published a poem praising hers as the late Famous Pastoral Poem; but it had not published hers, of which no text is known earlier than her collected volume of... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Elizabeth Singer (later ESR
), as Philomela, published poems in John Dunton
's The Athenian Mercury (formerly The Athenian Gazette). Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago. 383 Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang. 39, 52 |
| Author summary | Elizabeth Tipper | ET
, an obscure late-seventeenth-century writer, was an accomplished poet (as her single collection shows) and worked for John Dunton
as a regular periodical contributors: that is, a journalist. |
| Employer | Elizabeth Tipper | After this period ET
's prospects improved, to include employment, social life, and Honourable Friendship, but then another dark cloud intervened. Tipper, Elizabeth. The Pilgrim’s Viaticum. Printed by J. Wilkins. 20 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Wesley | SW
's sister Elizabeth
(technically her half-sister: daughter of Samuel Annesley and his first wife) married in 1682 the publisher and journalist John Dunton
, and kept remarkable diaries. She died in 1697. Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles Wallace, Oxford University Press. 4-5 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Wesley | Like her, he had switched from Dissent to Anglicanism. He had a frivolous side, being one of John Dunton
's cronies and having published through Dunton a poetry volume entitled Maggots in 1685; Susanna met... |
Timeline
17 March 1691: John Dunton (in his tenth year as a London...
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17 March 1691
John Dunton
(in his tenth year as a London publisher) issued the first number of the periodical which then became the Athenian Mercury.
1 February 1692: The London Mercury (by no means the only...
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1 February 1692
The London Mercury (by no means the only journal to use this title at different times) began publication, with an appeal to John Dunton
's Athenian Mercury and to the fair Sex, of what Degree...
1693: John Dunton dedicated volume 11 of his Athenian...
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1693
John Dunton
dedicated volume 11 of his Athenian Mercury to the fictional Worshipfull Society of Mercury-Women . . . of London.
February-March 1693: John Dunton published, in London, the four...
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February-March 1693
John Dunton
published, in London, the four issues of The Ladies' Mercury, a sister paper to the Athenian Mercury.
1694: Publisher John Dunton issued The Ladies Dictionary;...
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1694
Publisher John Dunton
issued The Ladies Dictionary; Being a General Entertainment For the Fair Sex: A Work Never attempted before in English.
14 June 1697: John Dunton's Athenian Mercury ceased pu...
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14 June 1697
John Dunton
's Athenian Mercury ceased publication.
1698: On the death of publisher Richard Baldwin...
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1698
On the death of publisher Richard Baldwin
from a slow consumption, his widow, Abigail
, took over the business in name; she had in fact been running it for several years.
1817: Thomas Leybourn published The Mathematical...
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1817
Thomas Leybourn
published The Mathematical Questions proposed in the Ladies' Diary, and their original answers, together with some new solutions, from its commencement in the year 1704 to1816.
Texts
Dunton, John. The Ladies Dictionary. Printed for John Dunton, 1694.