McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press.
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Textual Features | Eliza Haywood | This magazine has a second supposed author: the parrot, who is male. This creature, born in Java, has seen the world, since its long life has been spent with fifty-five different families successively. Though not... |
Textual Features | Frances Brooke | Mary Singleton, supposed author of this paper, with its trenchant comments on society and politics, is an unmarried woman on the verge of fifty, McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press. 14 |
Textual Features | Vernon Lee | The author chose as her narrator and central subject a Roman coin stamped with the image of the emperor Hadrian
, which is possessed by a series of characters including a gladiator, Renaissance artist Guido Reni |
Textual Features | Sarah Fielding | David Simple predates all fictional work by Samuel Johnson
and all but the earliest works by Henry Fielding
and Samuel Richardson
, which are sometimes mistakenly spoken of as its models. It may be seen... |
Textual Features | Janet Little | She consistently takes a challenging stance in face of authority. Ironically (in view of Johnson's championing of women writers and Burns's snobbish attitude about herself) she uses Samuel Johnson
as a symbol of the tyrant-critic... |
Textual Features | Margaret Forster | The novel opens arrestingly as the child Gwen and her siblings struggle back into their house from a walk in wild and stormy weather. Gwen's later-famous brother is called Gus, not Augustus
, to forestall... |
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... |
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 |
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 |
Textual Production | Delarivier Manley | Her brief in this paper was again to attack the Whigs. Her first number appeared five days after Addison
's Spectator number 81, which sought to decry and put a stop to Party-Rage in Women. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 277 |
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