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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Laetitia Pilkington | LP
's work was included in Poems by Eminent Ladies, 1755. But it was also traduced in catchpenny publications like The Celebrated Mrs. Pilkington's Jests; or, The Cabinet of Wit and Humour, 1759... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Osborne | Temple had a distinguished career as a politician, but is best known to literary history for his patronage of the young Jonathan Swift
. |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Osborne | DO
's sister-in-law Martha, Lady Giffard
, a historical writer and an early widow, lived permanently with the family. Sir William Temple employed the young Jonathan Swift
from 1689. DO
was a friend and correspondent... |
Textual Features | Dorothy Osborne | She trod a fine line as to the expression of her own feelings, for if the courtship should not end in marriage, she would have compromised her reputation. She converts this restriction into a rhetorical... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances O'Neill | The volume includes poems of natural description, of meditation, and of political comment. FON
expresses delight at the election victory on 9 August 1802 (in John Wilkes's old constituency of Middlesex) of Sir Francis Burdett |
Textual Features | Constance Naden | The Elixir of Life opens with the waking vision of a man and woman in their summer prime, he looking like Apollo, she looking like an angel with just a touch of the siren or... |
Textual Production | Judith Sargent Murray | The future JSM
wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion. Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books. 95 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Judith Sargent Murray | In her usual formal style, which she does not adapt to the more usual conventions of epistolarity, she says it would be useless for her to give Winthrop the current domestic, and commercial intelligence, Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books. 137 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Judith Sargent Murray | She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism... |
Literary responses | Hannah More | |
Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
's lampoon on Swift
appeared as an anonymous folio, The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing-Room. A Poem. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press. 273-6 |
Literary responses | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | According to a delighted Hervey, Pope was infuriated. Swift
thought the Verses were badly written. Montagu's granddaughter Lady Louisa Stuart
thought that for high-born writers to jeer at Pope's family was shameful. On the whole... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Her own title makes her own poem an answer to one of Swift
's most notorious productions. In a brilliant pastiche of his
own stylistic habits and his scatological gusto, Montagu represents him as an... |
Friends, Associates | Delarivier Manley | DM
first met Jonathan Swift
. Swift, Jonathan. Journal to Stella. Editor Williams, Sir Harold Herbert, Clarendon Press. 1: 154 and n1 |
Health | Delarivier Manley | DM
(who had been seriously ill the previous year) had a sore leg and dropsy (i.e. water retention); Swift
thought she cannot live long. Swift, Jonathan. Journal to Stella. Editor Williams, Sir Harold Herbert, Clarendon Press. 2: 474 |
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