MD
makes skilful use of letters to project character, political issues, and gender interaction. Her use of significant dates (All Saints' Day, November the fifth) links her with the prophetic tradition of Lady Eleanor Douglas
Intertextuality and Influence
Ephelia
Among the poems of praise, To Madam Bhen [sic] (then a not uncommon rendering of Behn) adapts from Cowley
's famous praise of Philips
the idea of uniting the Strong and Sweet.
Ephelia,. Female Poems on Several Occasions. James Courtney.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Catherine Fanshawe
The poems by CF
include an Elegy on the Abrogation of the Birthnight Ball (her lament, in the person of an elderly beau, for the passing of the old-fashioned minuet: an orgy of grandiose parody...
Friends, Associates
Sarah, Lady Cowper
SLC
brought to the social rituals of visiting some of the same suspicious stance with which she viewed her relations. I visit Some people for the Same Causes as the Indians Worship the Devil, least...
Family and Intimate relationships
Anne Killigrew
Her father, the Rev. Dr Henry Killigrew
, was and an amateur writer, a royal chaplain to the Duke of York, and Master of the Savoy (which was then a manor in the Strand)...