Edward Cave
(for whom JB
had been a regular contributor) posthumously published, by subscription, her Poems on Several Occasions . . . with Letters to her Friends, bearing the date of 1744.
Both The...
Textual Production
Jane Brereton
Bibliographer David Foxon
assigns this poem to Elizabeth Singer Rowe
, whose name was written on to the title-page by a contemporary reader of a copy now at the University of Illinois
, Urbana...
Textual Production
Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford
This new publication was priced at one shilling. Its full title here was The Story of Inkle and Yarrico: A Most Moving Tale from the Spectator. The first poem opens A youth there was...
Around late February 1742: A woman named Margaret Ogle published, with...
Women writers item
Around late February 1742
A woman named Margaret Ogle
published, with her name, two verse satires on Walpole's fall from power: Mordecai Triumphant, or, the Fall of Haman prime minister of state to King Ahasuerus: an heroic poem and...
25 August 1744: The Daily Advertiser carried an advertisement...
Writing climate item
25 August 1744
The Daily Advertiser carried an advertisement for The School of Venus, or The Lady's Delight, an English translation of a French pornographic text entitled L'Ecole des Filles.
Barker, Nicholas, and James McLaverty. “David Fairweather Foxon, 1923-2001”. Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol.
161
, 2009, pp. 158-75.
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Texts
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
Foxon, David F. Pope and the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade. Editor McLaverty, James, Clarendon Press, 1991.