Leapor, Mary. “Introduction”. Poems, edited by Ann Messenger and Richard Greene, 2003.
Valerie Rumbold
Standard Name: Rumbold, Valerie
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Friends, Associates | Alexander Pope | Pope's relationships with women, particularly women who wrote, tended to be complicated and turbulent. They have been ably studied by scholar Valerie Rumbold
. Contrary to rumour, he apparently liked and respected Anne Finch
... |
Literary responses | Jane Wiseman | JW
may perhaps have been one of those lampooned by Alexander Pope
in his Dunciad, though if so his draft reference to her was dropped before the poem was published. Critic Valerie Rumbold
notes... |
Literary responses | Mary Caesar | Valerie Rumbold
noted the allusions and double meanings with which MC
offered the pleasures of complicity and solidarity to imagined readers (even though it seems likely that her husband was the only person to read... |
Literary responses | Mary Leapor | The emphasis placed on ML
by Roger Lonsdale
in his revolutionary Eighteenth-Century Women Poets, 1989, was welcomed by reviewers. |
Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | Rumbold
has remarked that JCM
is not assertive enough for a satirist: that her poem on Philips lacks force. Rumbold, Valerie. “The Poetic Career of Judith Cowper: An Exemplary Failure?”. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, edited by Donald C. Mell, University of Delaware Press, 1996, pp. 48 -66. 61 |
Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | Falconer Madan
wrote that this poem had in parts real merit—which for him is high praise. Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933. 265 Rumbold, Valerie. “The Poetic Career of Judith Cowper: An Exemplary Failure?”. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, edited by Donald C. Mell, University of Delaware Press, 1996, pp. 48 -66. 65 |
Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | In Pope
's lines Cowper (mild, sober, serene, virgin) thus becomes the acceptable female poet, in contrast with the unacceptable Montagu, who shines, glares, and strikes the eye. Rumbold, Valerie. “The Poetic Career of Judith Cowper: An Exemplary Failure?”. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, edited by Donald C. Mell, University of Delaware Press, 1996, pp. 48 -66. 53 |
Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | Roger Lonsdale
in 1990 followed Falconer Madan
in supposing that her child-bearing and the influence of John Wesley
and the Methodists
amounted to sufficient explanation for her ceasing to write. Valerie Rumbold
suggested in 1996... |
Textual Features | Frances, Lady Norton | Memento Mori has a frontispiece depicting Lady Gethin
's happy death. In her dedicatory epistle, FLN
says that Gethin was not only my Only One, but in all Particulars an Extraordinary One. Frances, Lady Norton,. Memento Mori. J. Graves, 1705. prelims |
Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | Valerie Rumbold
concluded her ODNB entry: much of Madan's most interesting work remains unpublished. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
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