Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1 - 124.
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Robert Gould
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Standard Name: Gould, Robert
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Anne Wharton | Another correspondent and writing associate was Robert Gould
, best known to literary historians for his misogynist poems; he wrote an elegy on her death. |
| Literary responses | Aphra Behn | The Tory content of this play (with that of The Roundheads) moved the Whig Thomas Shadwell
to attack AB
as a literary whore. At the same time the same charge was levelled against her... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Fyge | The full title is The Female Advocate: or, An Answer to a Late Satyr against the Pride, Lust and Inconstancy &c. of Woman; the title-page ascribes it to a Lady in Vindication of her... |
Timeline
1682
Robert Gould
published a misogynist satire, Love Given O're: Against the Pride, Lust, and Inconstancy of Woman.
1689
Robert Gould
published another misogynist satire, A Consolatory Epistle to a Friend made Unhappy by Marriage (A Scourge for Ill Wives).
8 January 1689
Robert Gould
licensed his Poems, Chiefly Consisting of Satyrs and Satyrical Epistles: it included The Poetess, aimed primarily at Aphra Behn
.
1691
Robert Gould
published A SatyricalEpistle to the Female Author of a Poem, call'd Silvia's Revenge, an antifeminist contribution to the Sylvia debate.
1691
Robert Gould
published another misogynist satire, A Satyrical Epistle to the Female Author of a Poem Called Sylvia's Revenge.
1692
Richard Ames
published Sylvia's Complaint, of Her Sex's Unhappiness, an antifeminist attack following several he had published the previous year.