Scott, Mary, and Gae Holladay. The Female Advocate. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1984.
20n
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Anne Steele | Pickering and Chatto
includes AS
's Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse and Prose, 1780, and Verses for Children, 1788 (as well as work by Mary Scott
, Steele's niece Mary
, and Maria Grace Saffery |
Birth | Mary Masters | MM
was born—according to Mary Scott
—in Yorkshire, at Otley near Leeds. Scott, Mary, and Gae Holladay. The Female Advocate. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1984. 20n |
Friends, Associates | Anna Seward | Nine years later her meeting with the provincial literary hostess Anne, Lady Miller
, marked the beginning of a wide and deep acquaintance with the literary world beyond Lichfield. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 36-7, 71 |
Friends, Associates | Anne Steele | AS
evidently chose her friends at least partly for their literary interests, since they included three publishing women of a younger generation—Hannah More
, Anna Seward
, and (a closer friend than the first... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | EOB
writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld
for praising Elizabeth Rowe
. She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington
is the real author of... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's reputation persisted for some time after her death. Mary Scott
praised her highly in The Female Advocate, 1774. John Duncombe
(though her posthumous publication was too late for inclusion in his Feminiad... |
Literary responses | Mary Collyer | This was not to the Critical's taste. It had already this year declared its dislike of German poetry, and slammed Mary Scott
's Messiah. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 16 (1763): 393-4 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Cooper | EC
's book was generally respected. It was praised by Mary Scott
, and had a significant impact on Thomas Chatterton Bronson, Bertrand H. “Chattertoniana”. Modern Language Quarterly, pp. 417 - 24. 417 |
Literary responses | Mary Whateley Darwall | In April 1774 (ten years on from her first volume but long before her second) the Monthly Review (in a notice of Hannah More
's The Inflexible Captive) listed MWD
as one of the... |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | Her biographer Bridget Hill
identifies CM
's fame as having lasted fifteen years: from the publication of her first volume to the date of her second marriage (1763-78). But in fact she continued to command... |
Reception | Sarah Scott | SS
published significantly more than any member of the Bluestocking circle—with which, through her sister, she had close ties despite not living in London. She remains, however, less known than any of that group. Publishing... |
Textual Features | Anne Steele | AS
is, however, a secular as well as a religious poet. She twice wrote poems for national fast days during the Seven Years War: On the Publick Fast for 6 February 1756, and National Judgments... |
Textual Production | Eugenia | The Eugenia who published The Female Advocate chose a favourite title as well as a favourite pseudonym. The title had already been used by Sarah Fyge
, 1686, and was to be used again by... |
Textual Production | Anne Steele | AS
exchanged occasional poems over the span of her life with other women in her circle of correspondents: primarily her sister Mary Steele, later Wakeford
, whom she called Amira, but also her niece... |