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Textual Production | Henrietta Battier | HB
's volume of verse gives the ages at which she composed several of her earliest poems. During the 1760s she wrote, at eleven, a rhapsodic meditation on the theme of Good Friday. At twelve... |
Reception | Aphra Behn | Alexander Pope
used a poem by AB
, The Golden Age, in his Peri Bathous; or, The Art of Sinking in Poetry, as an example of the despised Florid Style. To sharpen his... |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Butler | Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton
, and Harriet Pigott
therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby
. Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, p. vii - viii; various pages. vii |
Education | Jane Welsh Carlyle | But by the end of his first visit, Jane Welsh agreed to allow Carlyle
to supervise her reading, and on his departure he provided her with a list of books by authors including Tasso
,... |
Textual Production | Isabella Neil Harwood | INH
published three plays in one volume, entitled Arabella Stuart
; The Heir of Linne; Tasso. Pall Mall Gazette. J. K. Sharpe. 4558 (1 October 1879) |
Textual Features | Isabella Neil Harwood | The last play in this volume, Tasso, tells the story of the Italian Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso
, who here leaves his home and his love, Laura, to pursue ambition, fame, and fortune. At... |
Textual Production | Mary Latter | This play by ML
is distantly related to Tasso
's Gerusalemme liberata (as is The Siege of Jerusalem by Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
, which was privately printed in 1774). An early draft... |
Textual Features | Anne Marsh | Adelaide Lindsay, which quotes Tasso
on its title-page, gives no hint as to what AM
's non-authorial relationship with it may have been. It follows its heroine from her first arrival home to Jamaica... |
Textual Production | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | She began writing this work, which she subtitled A Dramatic Poem, in Five Acts, five years earlier; even after its printing it remained unproduced. Arnold, Ralph. The Unhappy Countess and her Grandson John Bowes. Constable. 29-30 |
Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | Anna Seward
, in letters which were to be published in AR
's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 221-2 |
Occupation | Frances Reynolds | Samuel Johnson
was eager to sit for her, and did so on three occasions: in March 1775, in June 1780, and in summer 1783. He may have been sitting for her on the day before... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson
and Wordsworth
; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray
and Crabbe
, and wrote several poems inspired... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Edmund Curll
, still cashing in, published Select Translations from Tasso
's Jerusalem, by the late ESR
. Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang. 157 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | The Vision (first of her poems both in the Tonson volume and in the posthumous Miscellaneous Works) and On the Creation both express the resolve to choose religious themes for the future. Two extended... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | EPS
has an eye for picturesque scenes, which she describes as set pieces as well as sketching as an artist. Examples are the group formed by a servant and a native each knee-deep in a... |