Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Boyd | The third and final letter in the series is written by Montezella. It mentions a story which is postponed to a future letter, but includes a poem, Verses extempore, on Commodore Anson
, with a... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Oliver Hobbes | JOH
sometimes discusses her own writing, career, and ambition: One's place in literature is a possession—never a concession. And one knows one's place. I don't wish to be judged—one way or the other—till I am... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Brereton | JB
's true attitude to her own poetic vocation is hard to fathom. In An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele
upon the Death of Mr. Addison she calls herself the meanest of the tuneful... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Tollet | The volume opens with translations from classical authors, and includes two psalms translated into Latin. Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University. 51 |
Textual Production | Helen Maria Williams | |
Textual Production | Lucy Aikin | LA
published The Life of Joseph Addison: the first biography of her subject, which includes the text of a number of previously unpublished letters. Aikin, Lucy. The Life of Joseph Addison. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. title-page Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. 812 (20 May 1843): 477-9 |
Textual Production | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
edited and published Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian and Freeholder, by Addison
and Steele
and others (with 1804 on the title-page). McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xlv McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 421 |
Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
wrote an epilogue (not used on stage) to Joseph Addison
's famous tragedy, Cato. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press. 180 |
Textual Production | Mary Matilda Betham | Like most of her peers, MMB
maintained a lively correspondence. Some of it is reproduced in A House of Letters, edited by Ernest Betham
(though he prints more letters to than from her). She... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele
upon the Death of Mr. Addison, published in February 1720 by a Lady, is attributed to ESR
in a contemporary note on the title-page of a... |
Textual Production | Frances Sheridan | Sheridan had hired Theophilus Cibber
for the summer season; Cibber, predictably, made trouble, in this case over a production of Addison
's Cato. Frances Chamberlaine's verse was printed in a pamphlet of this year... |
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 |
Textual Production | Jane Brereton | Again as a Lady and through William Hinchliffe
, JB
printed An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele
upon the death of Mr. Addison. Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press. 78 English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | SC
complimented Anne Oldfield
's acting in Addison
's Cato, with a poem written in Oldfield's copy of Fontenelle
's Plurality of Worlds. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 149-50 |
Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | SC
's later occasional poems include an epistle to and pastoral elegy on her fellow-playwright Nicholas Rowe
and a twenty-first birthday poem for Addison
's stepson. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 221-6 |