By her own desire she was buried in the churchyard at a place with family associations, Talgarth in Brecknockshire (now Powys). An obituary in Gentleman's Magazine (the only trace of her in metropolitan as...
Literary responses
Jane Cave
Thoughts, Which Occurred to the Author, at Llanwrtid has become one of JC
's most-discussed poems, because of its being read as the most Welsh, though Norbert Schürer
argues that this meditative, devotional poem...
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Jane Cave
Schürer
has noted that JC
is unique in handling this material in print: nowhere else in eighteenth-century non-fictional texts does a respectable woman track her husband to a brothel or catch a venereal disease from...
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Jane Cave
Catherine Messem
made the case for JC
as a Welsh writer in Irreconcilable Tensions: Gender, Class and the Welsh Question in the Poetry of Jane Cave (c.1754-1813) in Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of...
names
Jane Cave
BirthName: Jane Cave
Married: Winscom
Pseudonym: Mrs Rueful
Indexed: Miss Cave. Now Mrs. W—; Jane Cave Winscom
Scholar Norbert Schürer
calls her Jane Cave Winscom.
Schürer, Norbert. “Jane Cave Winscom: Provincial Poetry and the Metropolitan Connection”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
36
, No. 3, Sept. 2013, pp. 415-31.
Publishing
Charlotte Lennox
A scholarly edition edited by Norbert Schürer
in 2008 includes some excerpts from Lady's Museum.
Publishing
Charlotte Lennox
Fifty items relating to CL
(mostly letters addressed to her) survive in the Houghton Library
, Harvard University
. This collection was discovered in 1964 but took some years to reach scholarly notice.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
317, 320-1
Textual Production
Jane Cave
The full title of this work, published by George Routh
of Bristol, is Prose and Poetry, on Religious, Moral and Entertaining Subjects, with a Brief, but Authentic, and Affecting History of Orenzo and Sarah...
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Texts
Schürer, Norbert. “British Erotica Before and After 1700”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
37
, No. 3, pp. 474-8.
Schürer, Norbert. “Jane Cave Winscom: Provincial Poetry and the Metropolitan Connection”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.