JA
wrote of this novel, I can no more forget it, than a mother can forget her sucking child.
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
285
She published it as a Lady: the only one issued this way, since later...
Reception
Jane Austen
In July 2009 Chawton House Library
marked the two-hundredthth anniversary of JA
's settling in Hampshire with a highly successful conference on new directions in scholarship about her. In November 2009-March 2010 the Morgan Library and Museum
Leisure and Society
Aphra Behn
St Hilda's College
, Oxford, holds a portrait by Mary Beale
, the most successful woman artist of her day, which has been thought to represent Behn. Scholar Maureen E. Mulvihill
discussed (with illustrations)...
Textual Production
Frances Burney
The most substantial parts of FB
's immense hoard of personal and family papers are in the New York Public Library
(Berg Collection) and in the British Library
. Their division (sometimes two torn and...
Literary responses
Margaret Cavendish
Douglas Grant published a life in 1957: Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Late in the twentieth century, interest in her and her work escalated steeply. The first...
Author summary
Ephelia
The Restoration user of the name Ephelia
was a remarkably assured, forceful, and accomplished poet (as well as a playwright), although she left, outside her single printed collection (1679), only four poems extant: political broadsheets...
Occupation
Ephelia
She was by all accounts an outstanding courtier, admired not only for her beauty but also for her style and wit (Freda Hast
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography quotes the word for...
Publishing
Ephelia
The book was handsomely produced, having a decorated dedication page, and a frontispiece featuring an oval portrait (or fictitious portrait) of Ephelia, with a heraldic badge above the picture and a pedestal bearing her engraved...
Ephelia,. Female Poems on Several Occasions. James Courtney.
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(whom it credits with greatness of power, spirit, nobility, generosity, beauty, constancy, and Scorn of Fortune)
Ephelia,. Female Poems on Several Occasions. James Courtney.
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is...
Reception
Ephelia
Maureen E. Mulvihill
calls Female Poems the first volume of English poetry in which a female voice takes a purely secular viewpoint.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Sly Stuart Duchess: The Many Masks of Mary Villiers (’Ephelia’)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), pp. 1-5.
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Though the much earlier Isabella Whitney
has a better claim to this...
Textual Production
Ephelia
Her title is A Funerall Elegie on Sr Thomas Isham Barronet The manuscript of the 49-line elegy is at Nottingham University
, in a collection of papers of the Dukes of Portland. Its high-quality, watermarked...
Reception
Ephelia
In the late nineteenth century H. B. Wheatley
suggested in Samuel Halkett
and John Laing
's A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain that Ephelia was somebody called Joan Phillips. This...
Textual Production
Eugenia
Scholar Maureen E. Mulvihill
, on her website, reproduces the elaborate title-page of Edward Reynolds
's 1642 address to Queen Henrietta Maria
by this name, Eugenia's Teares for great Brittaynes Distractions, and suggests a...
AK
's mythological paintings included the only ambitious canvas known to survive: Venus Attired by the Graces, now in Falmouth Art Gallery in Cornwall and called by Maureen E. Mulvihill
the most achieved of...
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Texts
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “’Butterfly’ of the Restoration Court: A Preview of Lady Mary Villiers, the New ’Ephelia’ Candidate”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, Vol.
9
, No. 4, pp. 25-39.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “A Feminist Link in the Old Boys’ Network: The Cosseting of Katherine Philips”. Curtain Calls, edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski, Ohio University Press, 1991, pp. 71-104.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “An Irish Poetess Flirts with Eros: Laurels for Mary Tighe”. Irish Literary Supplement, pp. 19-20.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Bedazzled by Burney: Sales of Frances Burney Books, Manuscripts & Images from the Paula Peyraud Collection (Chappaqua, New York). Bloomsbury Auctions, New York (May 2009)”. Burney Letter, pp. 9-12.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Biddy Jenkinson (1949—)”. Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide, edited by Alexander G. Gonzalez, Greenwood Press, 2006, pp. 154-7.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Captured by Jane. A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life & Legacy. A Multimedia Exhibition Review: text, image, sound”. Jane Austen’s Work. In Praise of Jane.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Dancing On Hot Bricks: Virginia Woolf in 1941”. Rapportage magazine, Vol.
12
, pp. 52-64.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. Email to Isobel Grundy about Ephelia.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. Emails about Ephelia to Isobel Grundy.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. Emails to Isobel Grundy about bookplate in Mary Tighe’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Psyche</span>.
Ephelia,. Ephelia. Editor Mulvihill, Maureen E., Ashgate, 2003.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Ephelia, Epilogue, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Pair-Royal of Coxcombs, Performed at a Dancing-School</span> (1679)”. Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1550-1700, edited by Helen Ostovich et al., Routledge, 2004, pp. 446-8.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Literary Property Changing Hands: The Peyraud Auction (New York City, 6 May 2009)”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
43
, No. 1, pp. 151-63.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Mary Beale’s Portrait of Aphra Behn (c 1682)”. Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1550-1700, edited by Helen Ostovich et al., Routledge, 2004, pp. 491-3.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Mary Leadbeater”. Dictionary of Irish Biography, edited by James McGuire and James Quinn.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Mary Shackleton Leadbeater”. Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Alexander Street Press, edited by Stephen C. Behrendt and George Holmes.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Mary Tighe”. Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide, edited by Alexander G. Gonzalez, Greenwood Press, 2006, pp. 208-13.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Old Books / New Editions. Part I”. Rare Book Hub.
Ephelia,. Poems by Ephelia (c. 1679). Editor Mulvihill, Maureen E., Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1992.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Sly Stuart Duchess: The Many Masks of Mary Villiers (’Ephelia’)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), pp. 1-5.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “The <span data-tei-ns-tag="">Eureka!</span> Piece in the ’Ephelia’ Puzzle: Book Ornaments in Attribution Research and a New Location for Rahir Fleuron 203 (<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Elzevier</span>, 1896)”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, Vol.
12
, No. 3, pp. 23-34.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “The New Candidate for Pseudonymous ’Ephelia’: Mary (Stuart née Villiers), Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (1622-1685)”. Women’s Writing, Vol.