Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Tollet | The volume opens with translations from classical authors, and includes two psalms translated into Latin. Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University. 51 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Alethea Lewis | She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone
, who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities... |
Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | Biographer Anne Kelley
mentions particularly among CT
' other poems her congratulatory To Mr. Congreve
, on his Tragedy, The Mourning Bride (which was unfortunately too late to be published with Congreve's play) and a... |
Textual Production | Hannah Cowley | HC
's comedy A School for Greybeards; or, The Mourning Bride opened at Covent Garden
. Its subtitle, confusingly, is the same as the title of William Congreve
's only tragedy, The Mourning Bride, 1697. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 934 |
Textual Production | Charlotte McCarthy | The title-page has a couplet from Congreve
about the reward of virtue. |
Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Throughout the 1720 LMWM
regularly responded in poetry to events in her social circle. She wrote on an alleged incident of attempted rape; on the deaths of the Duke of Marlborough
, William Congreve
... |
Textual Production | Susannah Gunning | This novel was never claimed by either Minifie sister, and has always been attributed to Susannah
. Complete misascription is a distinct possibility, since while the title is so like that of the sisters' second... |
Textual Production | Mary Pix | It was published the same year. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 93 McKenzie, Donald Francis. “A New Congreve Literary Autograph”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol. xv , No. 4, pp. 292-9. 297 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Thomas | Dryden, John. The Letters of John Dryden: With Letters Addressed to Him. Editor Ward, Charles E., Duke University Press. 186 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press. 210 |
Textual Features | Susanna Centlivre | The villain here is the heroine's father, Sir Philip Moneylove. His daughter runs away from home to avoid a forced marriage, calls herself Miranda, and in a gender-reversed echo of Congreve
's The Way of... |
Textual Features | Judith Drake | Its boldness in argument—seeking to lift women to an Equallity [sic] Drake, Judith. An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. A. Roper, E. Wilkinson, and R. Clavel, http://U of A, Special Collections. A2 |
Textual Features | Margaret Holford | The prologue maintains that good men are still there to be found; the epilogue says wit is extinct in the male line and survives in ladies only. The play has an old-fashioned flavour of Congreve |
Reception | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
's two-act farce The Hue and Cry appeared as an afterpiece to Congreve
's Love for Love in 1791, but was never performed again. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 5: 1350 |
Performance of text | Catharine Trotter | There was no author's name on the title-page, but the dedication was signed in full. It had opened about a month earlier (scholars differ over the precise date) at Congreve
's theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields |
Occupation | Charlotte Lennox |