Johnson, Samuel. Lives of the English Poets. Editor Hill, George Birkbeck, Oxford at the Clarendon Press.
2: 435-6
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Textual Production | Samuel Johnson | SJ
published, anonymously, The Life of Mr. Richard Savage; his subject, a personal friend, had died on 1 August 1743. Johnson, Samuel. Lives of the English Poets. Editor Hill, George Birkbeck, Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 2: 435-6 |
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 |
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 |
Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | Chetwood
(who published a number of women writers) dedicated the first, anonymous volume to the actress Anne Oldfield
. Haywood, Eliza. Love in Excess. Editor Oakleaf, David, Broadview. 35 |
Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | This may have been an expanded version of the unpublished collection The Danger of Giving Way to Passion, in Five Exemplary Novels. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 57 |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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. Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 55 |
Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage
and Henry Fielding
, but also Edward Young
and Samuel Boyse
. Books to which... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | This novel reaped warm praise, not only from Savage
(who hailed EH
's rising Name) Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 135 |
Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | This year EH
was praised by James Sterling
, but compared to her disadvantage with Martha Fowke
by Richard Savage
. |
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