Almost untaught, ET says she read the Bible all through three times before her fifth birthday. She was Covetous . . . of Learning to the last Degree,
Curll, Edmund et al. “The Life of Corinna. Written by Herself”. Pylades and Corinna, p. iv - lxxx.
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though she felt her imagination hindered...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Thomas
She was a friend of John Norris of Bemerton
from about 1695, or sixteen years before his death.
Curll, Edmund et al. “The Life of Corinna. Written by Herself”. Pylades and Corinna, p. iv - lxxx.
xii-xiii
Norris advised her on her study of French, and on not taking time from her serious...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Thomas
This collection contains the harvest of Thomas's poetic career. Her Muse, she says, is unfashionably incapable of dealing with love or obscenity: this shows clearly that her original poetic context was a Restoration one.
Thomas, Elizabeth. Miscellany Poems on Several Subjects. Thomas Combes.
