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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Susanna Centlivre | In the 1720s she belonged to an informal literary club which included Anthony Hammond
(with whom she was supposed to have had her most youthful liaison), Ambrose Philips
, Martha Fowke
, and Eliza Haywood
. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952. 229-30 |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Haywood | At this point in her life EH
entered on literary relationships with Aaron Hill
(who, with some gallant condescension, was a good friend to women writers) and his circle. They included Richard Savage
(who has... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sappho | Sappho
's name was an honorific for women writers for generations. George Puttenham
may have been the first to use it to compliment a writing woman: in Parthienades, 1579, he said that Queen Elizabeth |
Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | This year EH
was praised by James Sterling
, but compared to her disadvantage with Martha Fowke
by Richard Savage
. |
Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | The personal attacks in this work provoked backlash. Haywood was either reproved or attacked in her turn by Richard Savage
, Martha Fowke
, and David Mallet
, and their attacks established the convention that... |
Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | |
Occupation | John Donne | The highly literary great ladies of the Renaissance were part of Donne's writing environment. His predecessors in metrical experiment included Mary, Countess of Pembroke
. He wrote in praise of her and of minor court... |
Textual Features | Ann Batten Cristall | The preface expresses admiration for both Burns
and George Dyer
. ABC
stresses her lack of education (which, critic Richard C. Sha
argues, associates herself with lower-class writers like William Blake
and Henry Kirke White |
Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | Haywood used to be generally credited with this testimony to a women's literary tradition, but editor Phyllis Guskin
judges that it was more probably written by Sansom
. Fowke, Martha. Clio. Guskin, Phyllis J.Editor , University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1997. 34 |
Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | It is not clear whether a first edition was published and read out of existence; in any case, no known copy survives. It may be that the collection's first appearance was the one called the... |
Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | Aaron Hill
's Plain Dealer number 53 printed an admiring elegy on the lately-dead Manley
whose author was probably either EH
or Martha Fowke Sansom
. Fowke, Martha. Clio. Guskin, Phyllis J.Editor , University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1997. 34 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Haywood | This book builds on the writing of Delarivier Manley
in the mixed genre of scandal novel or allegorised political satire. Prominent among its many targets is EH
's fellow-writer (and fellow associate with Aaron Hill |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Haywood | The work includes a separately-paginated prefatory essay: Discourse Concerning Writings Of This Nature—that is, about the nature and purposes of letters, especially love-letters, and their dangers to women. The Discourse closes ironically with two... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Haywood | The Injur'd Husband features a female villain, the Baroness de Tortillée, who poisons her husband, gets him locked up, and breaks up the honourable love of Beauclair for the virtuous woman Montamour (who then assumes... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Haywood | A Spy upon the Conjuror is made up (after an anecdotal preface) of letters addressed to Campbell by fictional clients, and presents him as a focus for love-confidences and a centre of scandal. (It again... |