O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Garland, 1986.
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Jacob Tonson
Standard Name: Tonson, Jacob
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Aphra Behn | |
| Publishing | Aphra Behn | This was a money-making venture at a time when the amalgamation of the two playhouses was making life hard for dramatists. Positioned on the cusp between Behn's stage career (which goes almost unmentioned here) and... |
| Publishing | Mary Lady Chudleigh | Dryden wrote this month to his publisher, Jacob Tonson
, that he had a manuscript copy of the poem and wanted it to come last among the prefatory tributes (the place of honour), but was... |
| Reception | Elizabeth Cellier | EC
was imprisoned in Newgate
to await trial at the Old Bailey
criminal court for her publication (which Jacob Tonson
, reporting this, called a Libell upon the whole Government. At the same time, by... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Dixon | SD
expresses personal emotion eloquently and social observation sardonically. The Wish follows sedately in the country-retirement tradition of John Pomfret
, but To Miranda likens herself to Job, and adds a vivid image of shipwreck:... |
| Textual Production | Aphra Behn | AB
published through Tonson
her Poems upon Several Occasions.Jacob Tonson Though one of the commendatory poems dates from November 1683, the book was not registered with the Stationers' Company
till Easter Term 1684. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997. 324 O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Garland, 1986. 92 |
| Textual Production | Anne Finch | AF
appeared several times in print, with poems in both volumes of Delarivier Manley
's New Atalantis and in Poetical Miscellanies published by Jacob Tonson
. McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992. 120-1, 93 |
| Textual Production | Alexander Pope | |
| Wealth and Poverty | Aphra Behn | Though Behn was famed as the first woman to earn a living by her pen, she was never able to reach financial security. In 1684, trying to persuade her publisher, Tonson
, to pay five... |
Timeline
1684: The first volume appeared of Miscellany Poems,...
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1684
The first volume appeared of Miscellany Poems, an influential poetry anthology connected with the names of Jacob Tonson
the elder, publisher, and John Dryden
; the final part came out in 1709.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
By late 1697: John Dryden published by subscription his...
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By late 1697
John Dryden
published by subscription his verse translation of Virgil
's Works; it was the first time a literary work by a living author had been published by this means.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
20 May 1707: Jacob Tonson the elder signed the first of...
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20 May 1707
Jacob Tonson
the elder signed the first of two copyright agreements giving him sole right in Shakespeare
's plays.
Nichol, Donald W. “Warburton (Not!) on copyright: Clearing up the Misattribution of An Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Literary Property”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
19
, No. 2, 1996, pp. 171-82. 172
Bernard, Stephen. Whig Literary Culture and the Canon: the Legacy of the Tonsons. Oxford University Press, 2015.
2 May 1709: Poetical Miscellanies. The Sixth Part was...
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2 May 1709
Poetical Miscellanies. The Sixth Part was published, including Pope
's Pastorals and poems by Anne Finch
(which are placed between work by Pope and Swift
).
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Twickenham Edition, Methuen; Yale University Press, 1951–1969, 11 vols.
1: 58
10 April 1710: An Act for the Encouragement of Learning...
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10 April 1710
An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (later called the Copyright Act), passed in 1709, became effective.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
29
Sutherland, James. Defoe. Methuen, 1937.
170
1729: The publisher Andrew Millar, a Scotsman,...
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1729
The publisher Andrew Millar
, a Scotsman, established his printing house at 141 The Strand, London.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995.
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