Joseph Addison

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Standard Name: Addison, Joseph

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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.
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good-humoured as well as sharply intelligent: a contribution to the...
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
explains that the book is written for the young scholar and hopes to demonstrate the connexion between ancient and modern literature (the...
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.
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As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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