Pulter, Lady Hester. “Introduction”. Poems, Emblems, and The Unfortunate Florinda, edited by Alice Eardley, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014, pp. 1-40.
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Francis Quarles
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Standard Name: Quarles, Francis
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Margaret Gatty | Margaret's father's house was crammed with books, selected by taste not by method. He seems to have felt it not only natural but satisfactory when the little girls pursued their own studies among the books... |
| Friends, Associates | Anne Lady Southwell | Other social relationships of ALS
can be deduced from her writings (though honorific addresses of one kind or another have to be treated with caution). She more than once addressed Cicely Ridgeway née MacWilliam, later Countess of Londonderry |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Gatty | The Book of Sun-Dials reflects her early interest in the emblems of Francis Quarles
. On its title-page she describes herself as collecting rather than writing it—from the sundial collection she had been amassing all... |
| Textual Production | Lady Hester Pulter | In the same manuscript album as her poems and romance, LHP
included a collection of emblem poems titled The Sighs of a Sad Soul Emblematically Breathed Forth by the Noble Hadassah. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Isham | EI
begins with a notation about a time too early for her to remember it: criing quiet at Nurs and sleeping much froward after. It seems in the absence of punctuation, that she is passing... |
Timeline
Probably late 1634: Francis Quarles published his Emblemes (bearing...
Writing climate item
Probably late 1634
Francis Quarles
published his Emblemes (bearing the next year's date), which remains the best-known of the English emblem books.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Texts
Quarles, Francis. Emblems. G. M., 1635.