Joseph Addison

The title-page quotes Francis Bacon and Joseph Addison .

This volume opens with The Plan of a School, and then, continuing a story-line from volume one, with Mrs Wheatley's demanding of Miss Le Maine how she can use rouge and plume herself on...

The poem is headed with a quotation from Psalm 19: The Heavens declare the Glory of God, & the Firmament showeth his handy work—the same psalm which Addison had famously rendered as The spacious...

The novel offers in passing an amusing catalogue of an old-fashioned library, whose first items are heroic romances like Ibraham; Cassandra; Cleopatra [by Madeleine de Scudéry and Gauthier de La Calprenède ]. Several...

The volume is strong in local colour and nostalgia. The narrator practises a Quaker -like interior religion. In conclusion MAK quotes first from Addison 's The Vision of Mirza, then the final two lines...

By now Samuel is changing. He likens Johanna to Blake , whom she has quoted, though he has hitherto admired the balance and rationality of Addison . His acquaintance with artists increases. He...

This title-page quotes from Horace , Lyttelton , and Addison . The first tale, Genius (told partly in letters), fills volume one, and the second, Enthusiasm, volumes two and three. Both attributes are presented...

The opening poem, Nothing New, situates the anxieties of authors in regard to critics in the tradition of anxieties of lovers: both are right to be anxious. The contents include an English translation of...

The diary's first volume opens with a preface which expresses conventional modesty bluntly, without the customary effort at elegance or grace: Books generally begin with a Preface which draws in the Reader to go on...

An introductory address To the Reviewers urges them (with the trembling deemed appropriate for a woman writer) not to read the book in the morning but in the period of good humour after dinner.

Along with works of art she describes, but more briefly, the way of life of places she passes through. She has, however, little sympathy with working people's needs. She remarks that actresses and dancers have...

These poems reflect social life and perhaps the company of lawyers in the London of about 1720. Their author glories in her liberty—in several senses, but including freedom from the meaningless literary rules which...

This was the first periodical for women to take advantage of the monthly format, which was still fairly new. Unlike other magazines, it used fiction as its staple, while also including advice on behaviour, relationships...

She learns to condemn her parents' treatment of her when she boards in a family who deliberately favour the ugly, deformed one of their young twins, to redress the balance. She feels a great relief...

ALB 's niece wrote of her (with an echo of Pope on himself) that while yet a child, she was surprised to find herself a poet. She herself, however, said it was Joseph Priestley