Joseph Swetnam

Standard Name: Swetnam, Joseph

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence	Rachel Speght	RS 's title picks up Swetnam's claim to bait women as dogs bait bears. Her work is a cool but earnest put-down: for the most part she ignores Swetnam 's element of wit or paradox...
Literary responses	Rachel Speght	Some contemporary readers thought this work beyond the powers of a young woman, and therefore attributed it not to RS but to her father . Speght, Rachel. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght. Editor Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, Oxford University Press, 1996. 45 The anonymous author of Ester Hath Hang'd Haman belittled...
Occupation	Elizabeth Tollet	ET 's book ownership qualifies her as a collector in a way that few of her female contemporaries were, though since she left her collection to her scholarly nephew George it is hard to separate...
Textual Production	Rachel Speght	RS 's A Mouzell for Melastomus (a polemical reply to Joseph Swetnam 's Araignment of Lewde, idle, froward [sic], and unconstant Women, 1615) was listed in the Stationers' Register . Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, and Rachel Speght. “Introduction”. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. xi - xxxvi. xii
Textual Production	Rachel Speght	RS 's A Mouzell for Melastomus (i.e. for Joseph Swetnam ) is dated this year, though it may have appeared before the end of 1616. Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, and Rachel Speght. “Introduction”. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. xi - xxxvi. xxxii
Textual Production	Bathsua Makin	The title-page, in Latin, names her father as well as herself, mentions her tender age, and bears epigraphs in Greek and French. The British Library copy has a note on its final page in the...

Timeline

8 February 1615

Joseph Swetnam 's The Araignment of Lewde, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it appeared as by Thomas Tel-troth.

Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, and Rachel Speght. “Introduction”. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. xi - xxxvi.

xiv and n13

Around late February 1742

A woman named Margaret Ogle published, with her name, two verse satires on Walpole's fall from power: Mordecai Triumphant, or, the Fall of Haman prime minister of state to King Ahasuerus: an heroic poem and...

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