Ann Messenger

Standard Name: Messenger, Ann

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships	Anne Killigrew	Critic Ann Messenger speculates, on the evidence of AK 's poetry, that she was deeply unhappy at Court, that she found brief joy in the love of another woman, before some external circumstances separated them...
Friends, Associates	Mary Jones	MJ corresponded with Charlotte Lennox and with publisher Ralph Griffiths and his wife Isabella . Her friendship was valued by literary men like Samuel Johnson , Joseph Spence , Thomas Warton , and apparently Bonnell Thornton
Literary responses	Anne Finch	Later in the nineteenth century, Edmund Gosse (who then owned one of AF 's handsome verse manuscript volumes) made some parade, in chivalric, heavily gendered language, of his gallantry towards Ardelia, who, he said...
Reception	Jane Lead	Interest in JL has been growing in recent times. Apart from two doctoral dissertations (Joanne Magnani Sperle 's God's Healing Angel: A Biography of Jane Lead, Kent State University , 1985, and Julie Hirst
Reception	Sarah Dixon	Even before Ann Messenger wrote of SD in Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry, 2001, Regina Barreca had included in The Penguin Book of Women's Humor, 1996, her poem...
Textual Features	Ellis Cornelia Knight	Although Dinarbas was written as a sequel to Rasselas, the two works are generically somewhat different. Dinarbas sets out to offer data on the human search for happiness, and thus stakes its claim to...
Textual Features	Susanna Blamire	These Poetical Works include the first publication of SB 's longest poem, Stoklewath, with its affectionate, picturesque, but socially realistic portrait of village life. On Imagined Happiness in Humble Stations follows up this realism...
Textual Features	Sarah Dixon	On a Dispute between Two Farmers for an Old Sow. A Pastoral, a mock-pastoral of beguiling subtlety, re-printed in full by critic Ann Messenger , Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press, 2001. 205-7 meticulously follows the rules of eclogue dialogue; but...

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Texts

Messenger, Ann, editor. “Editor’s Introduction”. Dinarbas, Colleagues Press, 1993.

Messenger, Ann. His ’ Hers: Essays in Restoration and 18th—Century Literature. Kentucky University Press, 1986.

Leapor, Mary. “Introduction”. Poems, edited by Ann Messenger and Richard Greene, 2003.

Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press, 2001.

Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.