Connections
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Literary responses | Anne Killigrew | AK
's death was lamented in at least three poems. Her father printed in her PoemsDryden
's ode on her death, which links her painting and poetry, and subordinates both arts to her virtue... |
Literary responses | Mary Lady Chudleigh | Dryden
showed his copy of the poem to |
Literary responses | Anna Steele | The Academy gave Condoned a largely negative review, arguing that Steele had with the odd lack of judgment which not seldom distinguishes lady novelists, done nearly all she could to spoil her book. The Academy. 11 (3 February 1877): 91 |
Occupation | John Milton | As to poetry, Paradise Lost was quickly recognised as a classic. In 1674, while it was still a very recent text, Dryden
praised it as undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime... |
Occupation | William Congreve | Congreve was twenty-one when on 22 December 1691 he licensed his first book, a short novel called Incognita: or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd, which was published the following year. Congreve, William. Incognita. Scolar Press, 1971. title-page |
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, 1987. 210n42 |
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... |
Author summary | Elizabeth Thomas | |
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. |
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 | 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, 1992, 7 Vols. 1: 25 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Cooper | |
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 | 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, 1696, http://U of A, Special Collections. A2 |
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