Wiseman, Jane. “A Fairy Tale, Inscrib’d, to the Honourable Mrs. W— With Other Poems (1917)”. Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, 1700-1740, edited by William Christmas, Pickering and Chatto, pp. 34-46.
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | A. Woodfin | 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Wiseman | Her poems, full of character and ingenuity, spring from social interchange. The title piece is a longish, narrative, occasional poem, Sent with a Pair of China Basons |
| Textual Production | Helen Maria Williams | |
| Textual Features | Susanna Watts | The title-page quotes Pope
, who also (with his Messiah) stands first among the contents. Some pieces are unascribed; others are by Byron
(The Isles of Greece), Jane Taylor
(The Squire's... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mercy Otis Warren | Though the play is set in Servia (a place chosen not for its history or geography but its sound), the names are Roman, matching the title-page quotation from Addison
's Cato. All the characters... |
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Smythies | 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Smedley | 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
. Smedley, Constance. Justice Walk. G. Allen and Unwin. 136, 249 |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Savage | 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah, Lady Cowper | 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... |
| 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 Features | Frances Arabella Rowden | An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times. 1829, iv |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Pearson | 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. Pearson, Susanna. The Medallion. G. G. and J. Robinson. 1: 7-8 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Murray | 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... |
Timeline
14 December 1704: Joseph Addison published The Campaign, a...
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14 December 1704
Joseph Addison
published The Campaign, a patriotic poem celebrating Marlborough
's victory of Blenheim.
12 April 1709: Richard Steele began issuing his ground-breaking...
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12 April 1709
Richard Steele
began issuing his ground-breaking periodicalThe Tatler, using the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff and declaring his intention of reporting topics of talk from all the London coffeehouses.
2 January 1711: Richard Steele ceased publishing his ground-breaking...
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2 January 1711
Richard Steele
ceased publishing his ground-breaking periodical, The Tatler.
1 March 1711: Joseph Addison began to publish the Spec...
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1 March 1711
Joseph Addison
began to publish the Spectator.
19 May 1711: Joseph Addison, in a famous Spectator essay...
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19 May 1711
Joseph Addison
, in a famous Spectatoressay in praise of trade and the Royal Exchange
, described Englishwomen as clad in exotic clothes, like spoils or tribute from all over the world.
21 June 1712: Joseph Addison wrote in the Spectator that...
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21 June 1712
Joseph Addison
wrote in the Spectator that a man of refined taste would take more pleasure from looking at a landscape than from owning the land.
27 September 1712: Addison, in his role as Mr Spectator, obliged...
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27 September 1712
Addison
, in his role as Mr Spectator, obliged to look into all kinds of men, reported on the status of the Jews in England.
6 December 1712: Joseph Addison and his associates ceased...
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6 December 1712
Joseph Addison
and his associates ceased publishing The Spectator.
14 April 1713: Joseph Addison's influential classical tragedy,...
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14 April 1713
Joseph Addison
's influential classical tragedy, Cato, opened.
18 June 1714: Addison, helped by Eustace Budgell and Thomas...
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18 June 1714
Addison
, helped by Eustace Budgell
and Thomas Tickell
, began publishing a continuation of the Spectator.
December 1715: Joseph Addison began publishing a political...
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December 1715
Joseph Addison
began publishing a political periodical, The Freeholder.
1767: At auctions of copyright, Richardson's Clarissa...
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1767
At auctions of copyright, Richardson
's Clarissa was valued at £600, but Addison
and Steele
's Spectator at £1,300, Shakespeare
at £1,800, and Pope
at £4,400.
Texts
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison. Selections from the Tatler and Spectator. Editor Ross, Angus, Penguin, 1982.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison, editors. The Guardian. J. Tonson.
Steele, Sir Richard et al., editors. The Guardian. University Press of Kentucky, 1982.
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965.