This survives in a manuscript copy, British Library
Harley MS 7316. 68. It was printed in Edmund Curll
's Whartoniana, September 1727, unattributed, together with two other attributed poems by ET
, and six...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Tollet
Nineteenth-century anthologists Alexander Dyce
and Frederic Rowton
chose their selection of Tollet's poems from that of Southey.
Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University.
70-1
Mid-century critic Jane Williams
thought Tollet lacked the vitalizing spark of genius, even though her correct metre...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Bury
An epitaph on her, printed by John Evans
in volume two of John Corry
's The History of Bristol, 1816, in both the original Latin and an English translation, sounds almost apologetic about her...
Literary responses
Mary, Lady Chudleigh
Editor Margaret Ezell
notes how several women readers copied MLC
's most celebrated poem, To the Ladies, into irrelevant volumes, which they presumably thought a more secure repository than scraps of paper for a...
Literary responses
Jane Collier
The earliest critical comment on the commonplace-book is that by Michael Londry
in the Times Literary Supplement of 5 March 2004. Further useful discussion has been added by Carolyn Woodward
, Ros Ballaster,
and Christopher Dyer Johnson
Literary responses
Jane Collier
Michael Londry
observes that the allegory both assuages and aggravates our puzzlement
Londry, Michael. “Our dear Miss Jenny Collier”. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 13-14.
13
as to the exact nature of the collaboration which produced The Cry.
Occupation
Elizabeth Tollet
ET
's book ownership qualifies her as a collector in a way that few of her female contemporaries were, though since she left her collection to her scholarly nephew George it is hard to separate...
Publishing
Jane Collier
JC
's commonplace-book contains notes towards her preface for this book.
Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book.
144
The frontispiece shows a cat contemplating a mouse (drawn in a style derived from the emblem tradition), and a surrounding garter with the...
Reception
Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
The London Magazine welcomed the collection on its first appearance as thoroughly suitable for respectable households, conceived according to a chaste and elegant plan.
Dow, Gillian. “The British Reception of Madame de Genlis’s Writings for Children: Plays and Tales of Instruction and Delight”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
29
, No. 3, pp. 367-81.
368
The Critical Review linked its praise to complaint about the...
Textual Production
Anne Wharton
She also wrote what a transcriber called a Paraphrase of the 53. chapter of Isaiah, unprinted in her lifetime. The appearance of this poem in a manuscript now in the Brotherton Library
(Brotherton MS...
Textual Production
Jane Barker
Most of her extant manuscripts are at the British Library
and at Magdalen College
, Oxford. Just a few which are more widely scattered (one among the family papers of Jacobite diarist Mary Caesar
Textual Production
Jane Collier
The case for JC
's part-authorship with Sarah Fielding
in The Cry (finished by 19 November 1753, published on 2 March 1754)
Fielding, Henry, and Sarah Fielding. The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding. Editors Battestin, Martin C. and Clive T. Probyn, Clarendon Press.
xx, 129n2
has rested chiefly on internal evidence: the work's experimental, generically undefinable...
Textual Production
Eliza Cook
Among the manuscript commonplace-books in the Hilda Londry Collection
(privately owned by bibliographer Michael Londry
), some apparently include texts of EC
's which appear to be unique survivals.
Londry, Michael. Some informal notes concerning the Hilda Londry Collection.
Ogilvy, Eliza et al. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, pp. xi - xxiv; 175.
prelims
Bibliographer Michael Londry
points out the existence of poems attributed to her by good contemporary witnesses, though absent from her own volumes, in commonplace-book...
Timeline
Perhaps late 1803: Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott,...
Women writers item
Perhaps late 1803
Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott
, 1737-1812, of Mendlesham in Suffolk) published Elements of Religion, Containing a Simple Deduction of Christianity
, from its Source to its Present Circumstances.
Texts
Londry, Michael. Email about Isa Craig manuscripts to Isobel Grundy.
Londry, Michael. Email about Ruth Prawer Jhabvala film script to Isobel Grundy.
Londry, Michael. letter to Isobel Grundy about Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck et al.
Londry, Michael. “On the Use of First-Line Indices for Researching English Poetry of the Long Eighteenth Century, c. 1660-1830, with Special Reference to Women Poets”. The Library, Vol.
5
, No. 1, pp. 12-38.
Londry, Michael. On the use of first-line indices for researching late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English-language British poetry, with special reference to Elizabeth Tollet and other women poets of the period.
Londry, Michael. “Our dear Miss Jenny Collier”. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 13-14.
Londry, Michael. Some informal notes concerning the Hilda Londry Collection.
Londry, Michael. The Lisle Bamford McEachern Collection.
Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University, 2004.
Londry, Michael. Thomas Parnell’s Poem ’To a Young Lady’ as Addressed to Elizabeth Tollet. 1998.
