Mary, Lady Chudleigh

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Standard Name: Chudleigh, Mary,,, Lady
Birth Name: Mary Lee
Married Name: Mary Chudleigh
Titled: Mary, Lady Chudleigh
Pseudonym: Marissa
Pseudonym: M--y C.
Used Form: A Lady
Mary, Lady Chudleigh , was a versatile writer who began publishing during her middle age. Her poems and essays are earnest on religious topics but vividly dramatic in feminist debate. She wrote letters which were not for publication. Her surviving works are merely the tip of the iceberg. She reached print late in life: though she published in the eighteenth century, she must have written a great deal before that century began.

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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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Martha Fowke
Several of her poems in this collection wrestle with the conflict between gender and ambition. MF complains vigorously of feeling oppressed because of her sex—I was, oh, hated Thought! a Woman made; / For...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Judith Sargent Murray
She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho , the patriotic heroism...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Williams
JW surveys the field diligently from the sixteenth century onwards. She insists in principle, however, that no artistic talent in a woman justifies the neglect of even the smallest act of domestic duty.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
This belief...

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