Fidelia

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Standard Name: Fidelia
This symbolic name indicating faithfulness (which was also adopted for themselves by Mary Astell , Jane Barker , and the American writers Sarah Gill , Hannah Griffitts and Sukey Vickery , as well as for a fictional character by Hester Mulso Chapone ) is the only name yet known for a poet living at Lincoln, who was a frequent contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine for about a year in 1734-5.
Elizabeth Teft lived in the right area but used a different pseudonym. A just-possible Lincoln Fidelia would be Kezia Wesley , daughter of the religious writer Susanna Wesley and sister of the poet Mehetabel Wright .
Black and white photograph of Page one of the first issue of the "Gentleman's Magazine", the journal in which all known writing by the unidentified Fidelia appeared.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Jonathan Swift
Swift helped and befriended a number of women writers. He was a patron of Mary Barber , Constantia Grierson , an unidentified Mrs Sican , Mary Davys , and Laetitia Pilkington , a colleague of...

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Texts

Fidelia,. “Fidelia to Sylvanus Urban”. The Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol.
5
, p. 159.
Fidelia,. “To the Gentleman who offer’d 50 Pounds . . . ”. The Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol.
4
, p. 508.