John Gay

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...

The long epistle mentioned on the title-page, a philosophical poem On the Origin of the World, and the two Latin psalms are the works that show most revision since the earlier volume. A...

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...

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

The first volume had a frontispiece designed by AMP 's brother R. K. Porter . The epigraph came from the introduction to Gay 's Fables (1727) : From objects most minute and mean, / A...

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.

John Gay , AP , and John Arbuthnot 's farce Three Hours After Marriage was first staged; it was published anonymously the same month.

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...

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 .

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...

These poems have been linked since first publication with the names of Pope and Gay . But there are many reasons to think that the contributions of these two were far smaller than has been...

These poems were three of the six eclogues (one for each weekday) preserved in the poetry album which Montagu claimed as her own, and printed as Six Town Eclogues in 1747. Monday, the first...

HM continued after this to keep up a rate of one or two new novels a year (though 1897 and 1899 were fallow years). They include T'other Dear Charmer, 1892 (titled from John Gay

To test the waters Freeman selected from among ML 's poems those which were less likely to give offence by their class attitudes. Some poems fall in with familiar traditions, like paraphrases from the...

The title-page has a quotation from John Gay about the outspoken integrity of the poet (as contrasted with courtiers). A copy was offered for sale in late twentieth century by C. R. Johnson as...