Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
265-6, 276-83
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Dedications | Eliza Haywood | Spedding believes that the original numbers came out more regularly than has sometimes been assumed by commentators. Collected in volume form after two editions in these original numbers, The Female Spectator had nine editions or... |
Education | Mary Lamb | ML
was sometimes taken to the theatre as a child, which she loved. The first play she ever saw was Congreve
's tragedy The Mourning Bride, with a Harlequin pantomime to follow. She once... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Tollet | His friendship with Sir Isaac Newton
(a neighbour at the Tower) was shared by his daughter. There may also, possibly, have been personal acquaintance behind her praise of the poems of William Congreve
and Alexander Pope |
Friends, Associates | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Lady Mary claimed that at every stage of her life she picked a few intimate friends and cared little for the opinions of anyone else. She always retained the highest opinion of her father's and... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Pix | MP
's wide circle of friends included her fellow female playwrights Delarivier Manley
, Catharine Trotter
, and Susanna Centlivre
, as well as the poet Sarah Fyge
and actresses Elizabeth Barry
and Susannah Verbruggen |
Friends, Associates | Catharine Trotter | During her London years she was an ally of Damaris Masham
, but quarrelled with Delarivier Manley
. She found both a patron and a friend in Sarah, Lady Piers
(who wrote poetry herself). She... |
Health | Mary Lamb | Another followed an upsetting review of Charles's Specimens in the Quarterly in February 1812, another on her completing her own On Needle-Work in December 1814-February 1815, and another, unusually, only six months later. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003. 265-6, 276-83 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Trotter | The negative influence of CT
's marriage on her career was very considerable. Years later, in a letter significantly addressed to the greatest writer of the age (that is Alexander Pope
), which it seems... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Patricia Beer | This poem's subject is the love-affair of Semele with Jove. Semele wished to see Jove in his true, not assumed form; when he complied and appeared as godhead she was burned to death in his... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eavan Boland | It does include a fragment from verse play, Femininity and Freedom. It concludes with two poems about the peace process in Northern Ireland. The last, Irish Poetry, written for Michael Hartnett
... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Bury | Here she concludes by quoting, unascribed, eight lines of poetry by Congreve
beginning When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly Fair. Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Editor Bury, Samuel, Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint, 1720. 189 |
Intertextuality and Influence | B. M. Croker | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Davys | MD
makes skilful use of letters to project character, political issues, and gender interaction. Her use of significant dates (All Saints' Day, November the fifth) links her with the prophetic tradition of Lady Eleanor Douglas |
Intertextuality and Influence | Barbara Hofland | The title page quotes Congreve
. The story of Charles Benfield's early life and courtship precedes his death, which leaves his widowed Maria to bring up five children, feeling abject and paralysed (characteristics which become... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | The Double Disguise, set in an inn in England (the Pig and Castle, on the road from Ireland via Liverpool to London), features a travelling Irish family. The father (Richard Lovell Edgeworth
's... |