EPW
privately printed the first edition of her poem Flora & Pomona's Fête; or, The Origin of Botanical & Horticultural Meetings. A Poem After the Butterfly's Ball, in order to raise money for the...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
The reprint includes high praise of the little volume, calling it quite equal to [William Roscoe
's The Butterfly's Ball, 1807] in playfulness and spirit, and far superior to it in facility of...
Literary responses
Mary Wollstonecraft
Radicals, however, responded positively. William Roscoe
(father of Mary Anne Jevons
) hailed MW
in a poem satirising Burke.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Penguin.
126-7
Appearing shortly before Tom Paine
's Rights of Man on 1 February 1791, the book...
