Mahotière, Mary de la. Hannah Cowley, Tiverton’s Playwright and Pioneer Feminist (1743-1809). Devon Books, 1997.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Hannah Cowley | Not much is known about her mother, born Hannah Richards, who was a cousin of John Gay
and who married HC
's father in 1742. Mahotière, Mary de la. Hannah Cowley, Tiverton’s Playwright and Pioneer Feminist (1743-1809). Devon Books, 1997. 17 |
Friends, Associates | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | At this time LMWM
met and established friendships with writers, artists, and people of learning: Pope
, Gay
, Charles Jervas
, and the Venetian philosophe Antonio Conti
. |
Friends, Associates | Grisell Murray | At almost every stage of GM
's life, her family had the habit of spending part of their time at their London house, where she evidently moved in literary as well as fashionable circles. She... |
Friends, Associates | Alexander Pope | During these few months Pope
, Swift
, Gay
, and others met regularly as a brilliant, informal, all-male club in London for fun, jokes, and literary projects; they called themselves the Scriblerus Club. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985. |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. B. C. Jones | This is a story of the difficult or tormented love-affairs of sensitive young people trying to construct their new and modern world. (Intellectually, they seek to reach back past the nineteenth century towards the eighteenth... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Leapor | To test the waters Freeman selected from among ML
's poems those which were less likely to give offence by their class attitudes. Rizzo, Betty. “Molly Leapor: An Anxiety for Influence”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol. 4 , 1991, pp. 313-43. 321-3 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hands | EH
's pastorals include some touching love-stories, but they also regularly reverse the gender situations traditional to the genre. It is pairs of nymphs (not pairs of shepherds) who are alike ambitious to excel in... |
Literary Setting | Emma Tennant | Her heroine, based on herself aged fifteen onwards, is a red-haired debutante from Scotland, progressing from a seedy finishing school to being launched on the London season, an environment full of seducers and conmen where... |
Occupation | Charlotte Charke | CC
, at Henry Fielding
's Haymarket Theatre
, appeared in male roles: as Macheath (John Gay
), Falstaff (Shakespeare
), George Barnwell (George Lillo
), and Lothario (Nicholas Rowe
). The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 3: 402ff |
Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage
and Henry Fielding
, but also Edward Young
and Samuel Boyse
. Books to which... |
Occupation | Edmund Curll | Commentators seem unanimously to have believed Pope
's pamphlet claim that he dosed Curll with an emetic to punish him for illicitly publishing Court Poems on 26 March 1716—though since Pope also claimed to have... |
Occupation | Leah Sumbel | She received rave reviews for this first appearance, as Mrs Cadwallader in The Author (a burlesque portrayal of a woman writer). Later that summer she swashbuckled as Macheath in a famous transvestite production of Gay |
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. |