Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times. 1829.
1829, iv
William Cowper
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Standard Name: Cowper, William
Indexed Name: Cowper, William,, 1731 - 1800
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|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror... |
| Textual Features | Sappho | They treat a range of topics, from mythical and religious subjects, through satiric commentary and praise of beauty, to expressions of erotic desire. The cult of Aphrodite allowed poems to be simultaneously religious and erotic... |
| Textual Features | Patricia Beer | There are fourteen new poems, plus the remarkable dedication, entitled To the Same, a sonnet which sets out from the poet's early admiration for a poem of this title by William Cowper
. I... |
| Textual Features | Frances Arabella Rowden | An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) |
| Textual Features | Christian Isobel Johnstone | The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon
(Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones
(Read and you will know). Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Diversions of Hollycot. Oliver and Boyd, 1828. title-page |
| Textual Features | Susanna Blamire | Critic Jonathan Wordsworth
takes On the Dangerous Illness of my Friend Mrs. L. as exemplying SB
's keen awareness of new developments that affect her art, since its personal ruminative style is inspired by William Cowper |
| Textual Features | Susanna Watts | Ephemera of all kinds have been bound in: family anecdotes, a letter of William Cowper
of 1788, a Hindu Primer (or alphabet), a railway ticket of 1839, women's parliamentary petitions against slavery of 1833 (one... |
| Residence | Mary Collyer | Before their financial difficulties the family were living in Ludgate Street. Culshaw, Geoff. Geoff’s Genealogy. 21 Feb. 2009, http://www.geoffsgenealogy.co.uk/index.htm. |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Bentley | 1,935 copies of the book were subscribed for. Names on the list include those of BluestockingsElizabeth Carter
and Hester Mulso Chapone
, William Cowper
, and a number of those men who later wrote... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Catherine Fanshawe | In 1793, William Cowper
's friend Lady Hesketh
sent CF
a poem of Cowper's, with the request that she should not copy or circulate it. CF learned it by heart, then sent back the original... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Charlotte Smith | She wrote The Old Manor House while staying with a congenial group of friends (including Cowper
, William Hayley
, and George Romney
). The latter reported, in awed tones, that she would write a... |
| Literary responses | Mary Robinson | The same year Broadview Press
issued her Selected Poems, with four portraits and the illustrations by Maria Cosway
, engraved by Caroline Watson
, to her poem A Wintry Day. These were followed... |
| Literary responses | Mary Leapor | This volume attracted attention from Samuel Richardson
, Christopher Smart
, and the young William Cowper
, as well as from its chief promoters, John Duncombe
and Susanna Highmore
. Rizzo, Betty. “Molly Leapor: An Anxiety for Influence”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol. 4 , 1991, pp. 313-43. 327-8 |
| Literary responses | Jane Taylor | The Critical Review, quoting several poems in full, equally approved JT
's lively facility and her graver moral style, Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 5th ser. 4 (1816): 269 |
| Literary responses | Mary Leapor | ML
was by no means forgotten after her first discovery. She was praised in John Duncombe
's Feminiadand accorded the largest share of space in Poems by Eminent Ladies.William Cowper
, who... |
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