Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
34 (1764): 91
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Marghanita Laski | US reviews were good. C. J. Rolo
in the Atlantic Monthly called the book a scorching indictment of a hierarchical society, predicting that the blandly devastating satire will especially regale those well versed in the... |
| Textual Features | Marghanita Laski | Each apology begins with a cliché like To tell you the truth—, or Don't mind me, dear—. One point of the joke (as in Swift
's Polite Conversation, 1738) is the flatness and inadequacy... |
| Literary responses | Mary Latter | Reviewers in general were impressed. The Gentleman's Magazine (which printed an excerpt in February) noted that this work was Swiftian
in style, although by a lady. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Lennox | William Tisdall
, maternal uncle of CL
, had sometimes enjoyed Swift
's confidence (if not much of his respect) and had once hoped to marry Esther Johnson
(Swift's Stella). Carlile, Susan. “Expanding the Feminine: Reconsidering Charlotte Lennox’s Age and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Life of Harriot Stuart</span>”;. Eighteenth-Century Novel, edited by Albert J. Rivero and George Justice, Vol. 4 , pp. 103-37. 110 Glendinning, Victoria. Jonathan Swift. Hutchinson. 66-7, 70 |
| Textual Features | Isabella Lickbarrow | Her first poem, an Introductory Address to the Muse, uses the language of love and courtship: In secret shades alone I woo'd thee then / By stealth, nor to the world durst tell my love... |
| Textual Features | Catharine Macaulay | Her topics here, all relevant to the escalating American demands for independence, are the declining economy, rising prices, and an oppressive burden of taxes. Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press. 19 |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Delarivier Manley | DM
took over from Swift
as editor (that is in practice as writer) of The Examiner (first series) with number 46. Swift, Jonathan, and Arthur Mainwaring. Swift vs. Mainwaring: The Examiner and The Medley. Editor Ellis, Frank H., Clarendon. 477n2 |
| Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | This book is often seen as a sequel, and it retails the same type of scandal as the New Atalantis, but without the supernatural mediating characters. It too purports to be translated: this time... |
| Textual Production | Delarivier Manley | The occasion for this six-penny pamphlet Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii. xvii Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii. xvii |
| Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | These pamphlets printed in October were praised by Swift
. Apparently, though, they gave rise to the attack on a Club of She-Romps in The Spectator for 8 November 1711. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 280 |
| Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | One common element shared by DM
's writing in different genres (plays, fiction, non-fiction) is its targeted sensationalim and deliberate artistic excess. Another is its partisan political content. Swift
, who approved her very generous... |
| Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | |
| Reception | Delarivier Manley | Today DM
's stock is high, but she is less studied than many of her contemporaries. Her choice of genres and her close involvement with the political and other affairs of her time make her... |
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