Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press, 2001.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Sarah Dixon | Perhaps from her time in London, SD
made some literary relationships. She was a good friend of Elizabeth Carter
, and she subscribed to Mary Jones
's Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, published in 1750. Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press, 2001. 140 Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993. |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Johnson | Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Lennox | She met Sarah Fielding
at Richardson's house, and became friendly also with Henry Fielding
, Saunders Welch
(the philanthropist, who later offered her employment), and Lord Orrery
. She was presumably the Mrs Lenox with... |
Literary responses | Mary Latter | The Critical gave the book a one-paragraph review, noting ML
's misfortunes, her setting reviewers at defiance, and some strokes of genius in her writing. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 8 (1759): 171 |
Publishing | Mary Masters | This volume was printed for the Author. Its 833 subscribers (for 903 copies) Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000. 1: 409-10 |
Reception | Mary Barber | Mary Chandler
responded with praise of MB
's Lines with Wit and Humour fraught, / Pure as her Morals, sprightly as her Thought. Budd, Adam. “’Merit in Distress’: The Troubled Success of Mary Barber”. Review of English Studies, pp. 204 - 27. 205 |
Textual Features | Dorothea Du Bois | After seven pages on grammar, she offers pattern letters: those in verse are in effect an anthology of epistolary poems by women, a patriotically generous selection of Irish writers (Mary Monck
, Mary Barber |
Textual Production | Susanna Blamire | It must be remembered that, in a manner fitting the ballad tradition of unascribed authorship, SB
and Catherine Gilpin
often composed poetry together, and that Gilpin
, as well as Blamire, sometimes composed alone. The... |
Textual Production | Jan Morris | Morris was writing too early to know of the existence of that splendid Oxford satirist Alicia D'Anvers
, or to include in a section called Port and PrejudiceMary Jones
's early-eighteenth-century fantasy of a... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Hutton | The issue of female fame arises through Charlotte's admiration for the poet Mary Jones
. She says she doesn't expect her correspondent to have heard of Jones although the latter possesses genius and depth of... |