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Textual Features | Sarah Fyge | The volume nicely mixes the personal and political. SF
shows daring in expressions of love and of refusal to accept conventional restraints of all kinds. She reprints all four of her poems on Dryden
's... |
Textual Features | Anna Seward | The series (completed in 1791) developed from AS
's strictures on John Weston
's contributions to a book entitled Records of the Woodmen of Arden. She compared Dryden
with Pope
to the advantage of... |
Textual Features | Catharine Trotter | CT
's dedication sets out her own literary and dramatic models: Shakespeare
, Dryden
, Otway
, and Nathaniel Lee
. Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang. 87 |
Textual Features | Aphra Behn | She praised Creech's version (the first available in English) as making ancient learning available to women, whose education (according to the scanted Customs of the Nation) Behn, Aphra. The Works of Aphra Behn. Editor Todd, Janet, William Pickering. 1: 25 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Cooper | |
Textual Features | Sarah Green | M. G. Lewis
is a more complicated case, treated with some nuance. SG
admires The Monk but feels that after that Lewis's real talent was obscured by the baneful influence of German fiction: she agrees... |
Textual Features | Judith Drake | Its boldness in argument—seeking to lift women to an Equallity [sic] Drake, Judith. An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. A. Roper, E. Wilkinson, and R. Clavel, http://U of A, Special Collections. A2 |
Textual Features | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Her poetry as a whole is conspicuous for its versatility. Her major early influences (Katherine Philips
and Abraham Cowley
) were succeeded by Dryden
. (She always denied any influence from Pope
.) But... |
Textual Features | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the... |
Textual Features | Lucy Hutchinson | Lucretius
, as a pagan philosopher and theologian (and, as LH
and her contemporaries believed, insane much of the time and sexually promiscuous), was a daring choice for one of her religious opinions. Lucretius, and Lucretius. “Introduction”. Lucy Hutchinson’s Translation of Lucretius, "De rerum natura", edited by Hugh De Quehen, translated by. Lucy Hutchinson, University of Michigan Press, pp. 1-20. 8, 11 |
Author summary | Anne Killigrew | AK
(also a painter) was a fine Restoration-period poet, who has the misfortune of being better known for Dryden
's praises of her than for her actual work. |
Author summary | Elizabeth Thomas | |
Author summary | Aphra Behn | It is difficult to summarise AB
's immense and complex importance for the history of women's writing. Virginia Woolf
said she deserved from all women a tribute of flowers because she was the first to... |
Performance of text | Alison Fell | AF
was a constant source of scenes, burlesques, and improvisations for performance by the Women's Liberation Street Theatre Group
. She also wrote for a number of underground or radical papers: Ink, Islington Gutter... |
Performance of text | Aphra Behn | An amateur performance at Court of Dryden
's The Indian Emperor used a prologue which AB
included in her Covent Garden Drolery, but probably did not write. Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press. 210n42 |
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