Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Richard Savage
Standard Name: Savage, Richard
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Performance of text | Sir J. M. Barrie | James Barrie
's first full-length adult play, Richard Savage (on which he collaborated with H. B. Marriott Watson
), was performed for a charity matinee at the Criterion Theatre
in London. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 55 |
Textual Production | Medora Gordon Byron | This was published by Minerva
in two volumes, listing Miss Byron's four previous titles—those of A Modern Antique are not mentioned, though a couple of etceteras might signify those if not others. The title-page... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Carter | EC
associated on terms of warmth and equality with men of letters or culture such as Samuel Johnson
, Samuel Richardson
, Thomas Birch
, Moses Browne
, Richard Savage
, William
and John Duncombe |
Textual Features | Sarah Chapone | This 70-page pamphlet, addressed to Parliament
, exhibits detailed knowledge of the law and of recent cases involving heiress marriage, adultery, etc. SC
finds the English law harsher to women than either ancient Roman or... |
Literary responses | May Drummond | A scurrilous poem of 1735, The Female Speaker; or, The Priests in the Wrong, probably by Richard Savage
, linked MD
's name (lightly disguised by dashes) with that unruly Female Member the tongue... |
Friends, Associates | Martha Fowke | She formed close links with a group of male poets who held opposition political views: James Thomson
, Aaron Hill
(who was corresponding with her by June 1721), Richard Savage
(with whom she was exchanging... |
Textual Production | Martha Fowke | Richard Savage
's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, 1726, includes both at least nine poems by MF
(as Clio) and verses addressed to her. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Gerrard, Christine. Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector 1685-1750. Oxford University Press. 100 |
Literary responses | Martha Fowke | In the same volume Savage
salutes MF
as a better and more moving poet than Haywood. Christine Gerrard believes that the British Journal review of this volume, which celebrates the large Share of Merit in... |
Occupation | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Among writers who received Lady Hertford's patronage were Elizabeth Singer Rowe
, Elizabeth Boyd
, Elizabeth Carter
, Mary Chandler
, Isaac Watts
, Laurence Eusden
(for whom she set topics of occasional poems), James Thomson |
Textual Production | Ann Hatton | The dedication, to Mrs Carsgill
of Holme Lodge, Northumberland, mentions past discussions with her on the topic of the passions, and cites Johnson
's Life of Savage to prove their violence. Hatton, Ann. Deeds of the Olden Time. A. K. Newman. prelims |
Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | This year EH
was praised by James Sterling
, but compared to her disadvantage with Martha Fowke
by Richard Savage
. |
Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | The personal attacks in this work provoked backlash. Haywood was either reproved or attacked in her turn by Richard Savage
, Martha Fowke
, and David Mallet
, and their attacks established the convention that... |
Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | The full title was Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman, return'd from a thirteen years slavery in America, where he had been sent by the wicked contrivances of his cruel uncle. A story founded on... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Haywood | After a possible affair with Richard Savage
, EH
seems to have begun her twenty-year liaison with William Hatchett
, playwright and seemingly quintessential Grub Street hack, Spedding, Patrick. “Eliza Haywood, Writing (and) Pornography in 1742”. Women Writing 1550-1750, edited by Jo Walwood and Paul Salzman, English Program, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, pp. 237-51. 244 Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction and Chronology of Events in Eliza Haywood’s Life”. The Injur’d Husband, or, The Mistaken Resentment; and, Lasselia, or, The Self-Abandon’d, edited by Jerry C. Beasley, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlii. xxxix-xl Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Dedications | Eliza Haywood | EH
issued her third singly-published novel this year, The Rash Resolve, dedicated to Lady Rumney or Romney
, with 1724 on its title-page and a prefatory poem by Richard Savage
. Lady Romney, a... |
Timeline
2 April 1698: Anne (Mason), Countess of Macclesfield, was...
Building item
2 April 1698
Anne (Mason), Countess of Macclesfield
, was divorced by Act of Parliament; this was the first civil divorce (not first passed by an ecclesiastical court).
February 1726: Richard Savage published his Miscellaneous...
Writing climate item
February 1726
Richard Savage
published his Miscellaneous Poems and Translations: dedicated to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, it included work by Eliza Haywood
, Martha Fowke
, and Miranda Hill
.
25 June 1737: Richard Savage protested against slavery...
Writing climate item
25 June 1737
Richard Savage
protested against slavery in his poemOf Public Spirit in Regard to Public Works (an expansion of the previous year's A Poem on the Birth-Day of the Prince of Wales).
Texts
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