Knights, Elspeth. “A Licensuous Daughter: Mehetabel Wesley, 1697-1750”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
4
, No. 1, pp. 15-38. 17, 27
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Mehetabel Wright | MW
was accompanied to her new home at Louth in Lincolnshire by her sympathetic sister Mary. Her marriage only part-reconciled her to her parents; they thought her penitence insufficient. She said her husband was a... |
Literary responses | Mehetabel Wright | John Duncombe
must have had the Gentleman's Magazine poems in mind when he praised MW
in his Feminiad, 1754. |
Friends, Associates | Mehetabel Wright | Either now or later she met the writer John Duncombe
and painter Joseph Highmore
, as well as the novelist Samuel Richardson
. Knights, Elspeth. “A Licensuous Daughter: Mehetabel Wesley, 1697-1750”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 4 , No. 1, pp. 15-38. 17, 27 |
Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | Anne Kelley
traces in detail successive judgements passed on Trotter (later Cockburn) by her contemporaries and by the later eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate. 15-45 |
Anthologization | Elizabeth Tollet | |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's reputation persisted for some time after her death. Mary Scott
praised her highly in The Female Advocate, 1774. John Duncombe
(though her posthumous publication was too late for inclusion in his Feminiad... |
Dedications | Mary Scott | MS
responded to John Duncombe
's Feminead, published twenty years before, with The Female Advocate, dedicated to her friend the poet and hymn-writer Anne Steele
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 38 (1774): 218 |
Textual Features | Mary Scott | In her poem of praise MS
finds space to mention some men to whom women owe a debt for their support: John Duncombe
(her original inspiration), the Rev. Thomas Seward
(author of The Female Right... |
Publishing | Mary Masters | This volume was printed for the Author. Its 833 subscribers (for 903 copies) Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press. 1: 409-10 |
Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | John Duncombe
praised The Progress of Poetry. The Critical reviewer found in it pure description, perspicuity, and an easy flow of verse, but not brilliancy of fancy or orginality of thought. If pure description... |
Literary responses | Mary Leapor | This volume attracted attention from Samuel Richardson
, Christopher Smart
, and the young William Cowper
, as well as from its chief promoters, John Duncombe
and Susanna Highmore
. Rizzo, Betty. “Molly Leapor: An Anxiety for Influence”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol. 4 , pp. 313-43. 327-8 |
Literary responses | Mary Leapor | ML
was by no means forgotten after her first discovery. She was praised in John Duncombe
's Feminiadand accorded the largest share of space in Poems by Eminent Ladies.William Cowper
, who... |
Anthologization | Mary Jones | An Advertisement in the volume itself is uncharacteristically humble in tone for MJ
. It disclaims ambition and says it was quite accidental, that her thoughts ever rambled into rhyme. It calls her writings the... |
Literary responses | Mary Jones | Catherine Talbot
found Holt Waters and A Letter to Doctor Pitt indelicate and was surprised that Carter
liked MJ
's poetry. Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press. 183 |
Textual Features | Mary Deverell | The second volume opens with poems on On Heroism in Female Virtue and On the Friendship between two Ladies. MD
praises Elizabeth Montagu
, Marie de Sévigné
, Anne Bacon
, and others, some... |
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