Latter, Mary. Liberty and Interest. James Fletcher.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Latter | The poem is in octosyllabics (or, considering the many feminine endings, in the hudibrastics of Samuel Butler
). After an opening address to the conventionally starving and scruffy nameless Grubstreet Muses!, Latter, Mary. Liberty and Interest. James Fletcher. 1 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sophia King | |
Textual Production | Charlotte Forman | CF
again painted a vivid picture of her poverty and ill health in her last surviving letter to John Wilkes
. Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 8 , No. 1, pp. 28-45. 31, 42-3 |
Author summary | Charlotte Forman | Writing in the later eighteenth century, CF
was a major contributor to the periodical press, with a total that may have reached about 375 of political essays in letter form, averaging something like 1,300 words... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Forman | One might suppose that CF
was without personal religious belief, since she flattered the notoriously atheistical Wilkes
with the idea that he was likely to be more charitable than somebody devout. On the other hand... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Forman | John Wilkes
became her staunch friend and patron: she built this relationship herself through the wit, charm, and pathos of her letters. Another patron, the Earl of Hillsborough
, proved disappointing as a source of... |
death | Charlotte Forman | In her final letter to Wilkes
, on 9 April 1770, she had described her breaking health in such terms as make it surprising that she could live for another seventeen years afterwards. Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 8 , No. 1, pp. 28-45. 43 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Forman | CF
shifted from the Gazetteer (which in a different context she called that execrable Vehicle of scandal and defamation!) Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 8 , No. 1, pp. 28-45. 36 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Forman | CF
addressed to John Wilkes
, as the great asserter of the Rights of Englishmen, Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 8 , No. 1, pp. 28-45. 33 Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 8 , No. 1, pp. 28-45. 28, 30, 32-3 |
Publishing | Sarah Fielding | The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret
. Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF
's local and family connections: Ralph Allen
, Lord Chesterfield |
Friends, Associates | Maria Barrell | She seems to have been a personal friend of John Wilkes
, and embroidered him a sword-knot as a birthday present. Barrell, Maria. Reveries du Coeur. Dodsley, Walter, Owen, and Yeats. 42 |
Publishing | Maria Barrell | This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior
on the title-page. Barrell, Maria. Reveries du Coeur. Dodsley, Walter, Owen, and Yeats. prelims |
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