William Congreve

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Standard Name: Congreve, William

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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.
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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 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.
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The British Library copy (841 e. 6) bears a contemporary note of MP 's name. The prologue (probably by Congreve , though given anonymously)
McKenzie, Donald Francis. “A New Congreve Literary Autograph”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
xv
, No. 4, pp. 292-9.
297
implies that...
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
ET wrote a somewhat inaccurate account of Dryden 's death and funeral, which was published by Curll in Memoirs of Congreve on 11 August 1729 (dated 1730).
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.
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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...
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
ET also translated from the sixteenth-century Latin of George Buchanan . One poem, Ariette, was listed as set...

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