Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
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Anthologization | Catharine Trotter | |
Anthologization | Aphra Behn | Apart from many more or less creatively distant imitations, AB
produced several actual translations. Scholars sometimes differ about what to class as largely original and what not. |
Anthologization | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Thirty of her poems from The Athenian Mercury were recycled with other contents of the magazine in a new venture of Dunton's, a collection entitled The Athenian Oracle. Her poems also appeared in Divine... |
Anthologization | Sarah, Lady Piers | SLP
was one of the contributors to The Nine Muses, the all-female anthology of elegies on the death of Dryden
which was edited by Delarivier Manley
, and published in 1700. She expressed some... |
Anthologization | Sarah Fyge | SF
contributed an elegy on Dryden
's death to The Nine Muses; she wrote the same year for another collection on the same topic. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952. 30-1 |
Education | Sybille Bedford | The idea had been that Jack and Suzan Robbins should select a boarding school for Sibylle and have her to stay for the holidays. Instead, with the money provided by her family and trustees, they... |
Education | Tabitha Tenney | Whether or not TT
's education was Puritanical (most sources about her life have no higher status than gossip) she was well read in the emergent canon of English literature, from Shakespeare
and Milton
through... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Isham | She had already had enquiries from prospective husbands when she was in London, but the time of wooing came after her return home: a time marked also by her sister's illness and her own religious... |
Friends, Associates | William Congreve | As a young man Congreve formed a friendship with the older and distinguished Dryden
. He later belonged to the Whig Kit-Cat Club
, and counted most of its members among his friends, while remaining... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf wrote to Eliot, whose Prufrock and Other Observations he had read, to invite him to send some work to the Hogarth Press
. The letter led to a meeting, and ultimately to the... |
Friends, Associates | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | MLC
's circle of friends was largely maintained by correspondence. She discussed literary and philosophical ideas with John Dryden
, Mary Astell
(Almystrea in Chudleigh's poetry), Elizabeth Thomas
, and other women who are... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Thomas | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Latter | ML
here accords honorific citation to Dryden
and Pope
, Latter, Mary. Pro & Con. T. Lowndes, 1771. 31-2 Latter, Mary. Pro & Con. T. Lowndes, 1771. vii, 14 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Thomas | As a child Curll, Edmund, Elizabeth Thomas, and Richard Gwinnett. “The Life of Corinna. Written by Herself”. Pylades and Corinna, 1731, p. iv - lxxx. viii The Life of Corinna, purporting to be written by a female friend, which prefaces the first volume of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Clara Reeve | In this ground-breaking study CR
provides the first full critical and historical account of the modern novel form (the one most used by women writers), and defends the genre of romance against its many attackers... |