Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
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Friends, Associates | Mary Astell | Elizabeth Hutcheson
(an associate of nonjuring devotional writer William Law
, as was Hastings) later became MA
's executor. Her friendship with Lady Chudleigh
was conducted largely by letter, since Chudleigh lived in Devon. Astell... |
Friends, Associates | John Dryden | Of these female disciples, Mary, Lady Chudleigh
, and the younger Elizabeth Thomas
enjoyed personal friendships with JD
. But his career was conspicuous for professional enmities as well as friendships. His feud with Thomas Shadwell |
Friends, Associates | John Norris | JN
conducted correspondences with a number of learned women: Mary, Lady Chudleigh
(who visited him at his home), Damaris, Lady Masham
(with whom his relationship ended in difference of opinion), and Elizabeth Thomas
, all... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Thomas | Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000. 150n115 Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000. 150 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Astell | Among those directly influenced by this work were Judith Drake
, Elizabeth Thomas
, Mary, Lady Chudleigh
, and Elizabeth Elstob
. Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986. 106 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Tollet | The long epistle mentioned on the title-page, a philosophical poem On the Origin of the World, and the two Latin psalms are the works that show most revision since the earlier volume. Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University, 2004. 37 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Astell | MA
influenced a whole generation of writing women: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, Mary Chudleigh
, Elizabeth Thomas
, Judith Drake
, Damaris Masham
(although Masham's opinions were markedly different), Elizabeth Elstob
, and Jane Barker |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah, Lady Cowper | The diary's first volume opens with a preface which expresses conventional modesty bluntly, without the customary effort at elegance or grace: Books generally begin with a Preface which draws in the Reader to go on... |
Literary responses | Eugenia | Chudleigh
praised Eugenia
's ingenious Pen in a poem she published in 1703. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Occupation | John Dryden | By this time Dryden's two careers as writer and dramatist were well launched. The first depended on his ability to please the Stuart court, and the second on his ability to please a theatre audience... |
Performance of text | Jennifer Johnston | Her Selected Short Plays, published in 2003, includes the texts of Moonlight and Music (a one-acter first produced during the YK2 Festival at Dublin in 2000),Mustn't Forget High Noon, O Ananias, Azarias... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Thomas | This collection contains the harvest of Thomas's poetic career. Her Muse, she says, is unfashionably incapable of dealing with love or obscenity: this shows clearly that her original poetic context was a Restoration one. Thomas, Elizabeth. Miscellany Poems on Several Subjects. Thomas Combes, 1722. 50-1 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Carter | EC
had promised Catherine Talbot
that she would undertake the project of making a scholarly translation of the Enchiridion by Epictetus
. This work of ancient Greek stoic philosophy was something of a favourite with... |
Textual Production | Eugenia | The Eugenia who published The Female Advocate chose a favourite title as well as a favourite pseudonym. The title had already been used by Sarah Fyge
, 1686, and was to be used again by... |
Textual Production | Martha Fowke | The first is An Epitaph on the late Excellent and Ingenious Lady, the Lady Chudley
, of Aston in Devonshire (actually more of an elegy); the second is On a Silk-Paper at a Fair Lady's... |