Barber, Mary, Jonathan Swift, and Constantia Grierson. Poems on Several Occasions. C. Rivington, 1734.
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Mary Barber
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Standard Name: Barber, Mary
Birth Name: Mary
Married Name: Mary Barber
Pseudonym: Sapphira
Pseudonym: M. B.
MB
is a domestic, small-scale, early eighteenth-century poet of charm and intelligence (remembered particularly for her writing about her children), but also an incisive, often satirical commentator on social and gender issues. Her single collection of poems was preceded by a number of separately-published pieces, mostly anonymous, not all specifically mentioned here.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Constantia Grierson | Constantia Crawley (later CG
) became (through her own efforts, said Mary Barber
) proficient in Latin, Greek, history, theology, philosophy and mathematics. Laetitia Pilkington
says she also knew Hebrew (which Mary Delany
doubted), and... |
| Friends, Associates | Constantia Grierson | CG
was a friend from their adolescence of the young women who became the poets Mary Barber
and Laetitia Pilkington
. Their shared friendship with Jonathan Swift
has been an element in preserving some memory... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Caesar | |
| Friends, Associates | Jonathan Swift | Swift helped and befriended a number of women writers. He was a patron of Mary Barber
, Constantia Grierson
, an unidentified Mrs Sican
, Mary Davys
, and Laetitia Pilkington
, a colleague of... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Chandler | MC
seems to have become the real friend of several women of higher rank than herself, some of whom moved from the position of her customers to that of her patrons: they included Lady Hertford |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Collier | The commonplace-book throws light on Collier's other extant writings as well. A casual mention of what Sally calls the Turba proves definitively that at least one neologism in The Cry stemmed not from her but... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Laetitia Pilkington | |
| Literary responses | Constantia Grierson | Mary Barber
responded to the feeling expressed in this poem with a somewhat clumsy poetic attempt at comfort. |
| politics | Mary Caesar | She acted on her Jacobite principles in attending parliamentary debates, reading the memoirs of statesmen, and visiting Tory detainees in prison. Indeed, though she never questioned that men were intended to manage public affairs, she... |
| Publishing | Constantia Grierson | The Gentleman's Magazine reprinted (two or three years after CG
's death) her To Mrs. Mary Barber, which had just appeared in Barber's Poems on Several Occasions. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 5 (August 1735): 492 |
| Textual Features | Dorothea Du Bois | After seven pages on grammar, she offers pattern letters: those in verse are in effect an anthology of epistolary poems by women, a patriotically generous selection of Irish writers (Mary Monck
, Mary Barber |
| Textual Features | Martha Hale | The poems, though not mostly ambitious in mode, display remarkable skill and versatility for an amateur. MH
addresses domestic themes (in love-poetry and family verse) with wit, ingenuity, and an unusual focus on the female... |
| Textual Features | Mary Jones | MJ
's tone, whether in prose or verse, is generally non-deferential. One letter to a patron asks, Shall I pay my Adorations to your Rank, your Fortune, or the good Dinners you give me? Jones, Mary. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. Dodsley, 1750. 275 |
| Textual Features | Mary Jones | MJ
's letters cover the period from 1732 to 1748, from the writer's mid twenties till she was just over forty. Like her poems themselves they are full of the business of poetry and authorship... |
| Textual Production | Constantia Grierson | Mary Barber
gave this date to CG
's congratulatory verses To Mrs. Barber, under the Name of Sapphira, when she placed them at the head of her printed volume in [1735]. Barber, Mary, Jonathan Swift, and Constantia Grierson. Poems on Several Occasions. C. Rivington, 1734. xlv-xlviii Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 5 (August 1735): 492 |
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