Thicknesse, Ann. A Letter from Miss F—d. 1761.
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Frances Greville
Standard Name: Greville, Frances
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Ann Thicknesse | Ann Ford told her father she was properly grateful for the education he had given her. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Ham | At Ardnaree EH
found herself courted by an officer named Jackson, with a sentimental manner and a habit of quoting poetry, such as Frances Greville
's prayer for indifference. He had aroused strong interest in... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | Her narratives of these emotional involvements lead her into analysis of the different effects of love on the two sexes. This analysis is founded on two women writers (identifiable although she does not name them)... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Sleath | The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare
, Milton
, Pope
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, William Mason
, John Langhorne
, Burns
, Erasmus Darwin
, Edward Young |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Moody | She has a sharp eye for gender issues, including those surrounding domestic work. The Housewife's Prayer is addressed to Economy, a name which might be loosely translated as balancing the budget, and ends with the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Savage | A Letter to Miss E.B. on Marriage comments acutely on the conduct-book market: every He that writes claims a superior recipe for form[ing] the tender virgin's mind. Savage, Mary. Poems on Various Subjects and Occasions. C. Parker, 1777, 2 vols. 2: 4 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | More takes a sceptical view of sensibility: she reproves both the representation of it in Goethe
's Werther (which had been available in English for about three years) and the sentimental enthusiasm which the book... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | Contents include lives of Elizabeth Singer Rowe
and of Mary Wollstonecraft
(the latter reprinted from the Monthly Visitor of London). Among the poems (some of them specifically attributed to SHR
) are one entitled... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Robinson | This includes her Ode to Rapture (reprinted from The Oracle, later omitted from her posthumous volume), which her editor Judith Pascoe
calls her most direct treatment of sexual passion. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, 2000, pp. 19-64. 47 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Riddell | Her own poems in this volume cover a wide range of moods. A piece written against Stoicism sounds like an answer to Frances Greville
's prayer for indifference as the speaker (who has a fickle... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Parsons | EP
follows in the tradition of Richardson
, both in her general scheme and in details like an incident involving a male character and his kept mistress. At the outset each of the central friends... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | The feelings of this Emma are all in extremes. During her early passion she quotes Frances Greville
on the pains of sensibility. Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of. Emma. T. Hookham, 1773, 3 vols. 1: 66 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | ESG
quotes on her title-page from James Hammond
and early in her first volume from Samuel Johnson
(no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the author). qtd. in Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah. The Life of Mrs Gooch. Printed for the authoress and sold by C. and G. Kearsley, 1792, 3 vols. 1: 11 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Griffith | He describes her with a line from Donne
's Second Anniversary. EG
's range of reference here includes Rousseau
, Milton
, Frances Greville
, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
. Characters discuss and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Selima Hill | Again, her poems make up a series with a single speaker: a youngish woman living on a remote farm with practically no social context beyond animals and her mother. When she falls in love it... |
Timeline
By 22 May 1755: George Colman and Bonnell Thornton edited...
Women writers item
By 22 May 1755
George Colman
and Bonnell Thornton
edited and published an anthology entitled Poems by Eminent Ladies.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
12: 512
Eger, Elizabeth. “Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 201-15.
210
Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
86-7
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
286-7
1756 or 1757: Frances Greville, in Italy with her family...
Women writers item
1756 or 1757
Frances Greville
, in Italy with her family some months after the death of her eldest son (aged around six), composed a poem which became a landmark text, the Ode to [or Prayer for] Indifference.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
April 1774: The Monthly Review, in a notice on Hannah...
Women writers item
April 1774
The Monthly Review, in a notice on Hannah More
's The Inflexible Captive, quoted some lines which transform the Muses from ancient Greece into the living female poets of Britain.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
50 (April 1774): 243-51
January 1781-December 1782: The Lady's Poetical Magazine, or Beauties...
Writing climate item
January 1781-December 1782
The Lady's Poetical Magazine, or Beauties of British Poetry appeared, published by James Harrison
in four half-yearly numbers; it is arguable whether or not it kept the first number's promise of generous selections of work...
By 26 October 1972: Helen Gardner edited The New Oxford Book...
Writing climate item
By 26 October 1972
Helen Gardner
edited The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950, designed to update and replace Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
's Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(26 October 1972): 11
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