Maureen E. Mulvihill

The original volume's dedication to the most Excellent Princess MARY, Dutchess of Richmond & Lenox (whom it credits with greatness of power, spirit, nobility, generosity, beauty, constancy, and Scorn of Fortune) is...

Maureen E. Mulvihill calls Female Poems the first volume of English poetry in which a female voice takes a purely secular viewpoint. Though the much earlier Isabella Whitney has a better claim to this...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

JA wrote of this novel, I can no more forget it, than a mother can forget her sucking child. She published it as a Lady: the only one issued this way, since later...

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