Joseph Addison

Again as a Lady and through William Hinchliffe , JB printed An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the death of Mr. Addison.

In her youth JB knew Thomas Beach, who grew up at Wrexham, in the same district as herself (and later joined in the same verse exchanges in the Gentleman's Magazine), and probably...

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...

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...

Because of her mother's early death, MBE , she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Apart from the family library, a half-guinea annual subscription to the Ipswich Mechanics' Institution

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...

ALB edited and published Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian and Freeholder, by Addison and Steele and others (with 1804 on the title-page).

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

LA published The Life of Joseph Addison: the first biography of her subject, which includes the text of a number of previously unpublished letters.