The group comprised both authors and patrons. Other members were Dr John Arbuthnot
, Thomas Parnell
, and Lords Oxford
and Bolingbroke
. The writers among the club sent doggerel invitations to their meetings to...
Health
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
LMWM
was dangerously ill, and attended by Dr Arbuthnot
.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
In Three Years After Marriage (a title which alludes to Three Hours After Marriage by Pope
, Gay
, and Arbuthnot
) a beautiful young wife, Matilda, is impervious to advice against quarrelling with her...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Herberts
This tale is not continuous, but distributed in sections throughout the book. The romance couples make periodic contact with the Countess Brillante, a woman writer about whom Herbert's attitude is typically protean and hard to...
Literary responses
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Pope
's Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot made a particularly strong and memorable attack on LMWM
's friend Hervey
and also herself.
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Performance of text
Alexander Pope
John Gay
, AP
, and John Arbuthnot
's farce Three Hours After Marriage was first staged; it was published anonymously the same month.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 431
Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot, 3 vols.
Publishing
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The Dodd version went through several slightly revised editions before and after 16 January 1735, when a Fifth Edition Corrected was advertised in response to Pope
's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot—a poem addressed to...
Textual Production
Alexander Pope
AP
published his Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, which was later reprinted as Prologue to the Satires.
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Timeline
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Texts
Gay, John et al. Three Hours After Marriage. Bernard Lintot, 1717.