Maxwell
had been an admirer of SB
's writing since his early youth: with a father serving in India, he used her poem The Nabob to feed his imaginings of how it would be when...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sophia Lee
Elizabeth Tickell's father had committed suicide after a financially disastrous second marriage. She had literary connections, being the great-grand-daughter of the poet Thomas Tickell
and the niece of Elizabeth Liddell Sheridan
.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Strutt
The title-page quotes Shakespeare
: later on Pope
, Thomson
, Thomas Tickell
, Charles Cotton
, and others are quoted too. Characters include a seducer and promiser-breaker who dies in a duel. The central...
Timeline
18 June 1714: Addison, helped by Eustace Budgell and Thomas...
Writing climate item
18 June 1714
Addison
, helped by Eustace Budgell
and Thomas Tickell
, began publishing a continuation of the Spectator.