Pitcher, Edward W. Woman’s Wit. Edwin Mellen Press.
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Textual Features | Elizabeth Gilding | Edward Pitcher
describes these poems, the last identified from her pen, printed and apparently written soon after childbirth, as gloomy in tone. Pitcher, Edward W. Woman’s Wit. Edwin Mellen Press. 311 |
Residence | Helen Maria Williams | She was delighted to learn that Thomas Gray
had once lived there. Kennedy, Deborah. Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press. 40 |
Occupation | Horace Walpole | The Strawberry Hill Press
was active for decades. Its first publication, Two Odes by Walpole's friend Thomas Gray
, appeared on 8 August. |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | Though CM
's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray
and Horace Walpole
thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we... |
Literary responses | Mary Whateley Darwall | John Wesley
noted that he thought some of the elegies of MWDquite equal to Mr. Gray
's. Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press. 93 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson
and Wordsworth
; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray
and Crabbe
, and wrote several poems inspired... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Steele | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | It is not true that Corsica was unique as an overtly political poem by a woman (precedents reach from the seventeenth century to Verses on the Present State of Ireland by Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Jacson | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | The title poem alludes through its name to Mozart
's Magic Flute. Its protagonist, Catherine, nearly eighteen, is gently mocked for her literary aspirations: Her Poems good, if not surprising, / On Friendship, Death... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Browne | FB
began writing at the age of seven, when, inspired by her great and strange love of poetry, she attempted to re-write The Lord's Prayer in verse. Browne, Frances. The Star of Attéghéi; the Vision of Schwartz; and Other Poems. Edward Moxon. xvi-xvii |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | In a later generation Anna Letitia Barbauld
followed Hertford and Carter in celebrating ESR
her in poetry. Such different figures as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
and Clara Reeve
endorsed her. She had a huge following... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Murray | Murray then divides her volume into three parts: A Guide to the Lakes . . . and . . . the West Riding of Yorkshire, A Guide to the Beauties of Scotland, and... |
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