Stevens, Anne. “Tales of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction, 1770-1812”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
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Textual Features | Anne Francis | An Argument explains the poem's source in Plutarch. AF
's hero, whose father was an associate of Alexander the Great
, is dead after many vicissitudes. His ashes make a triumphal progress by sea from... |
Textual Features | Anna Maria Porter | The novel ranges over Barbary, Persia, and Brazil, Stevens, Anne. “Tales of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction, 1770-1812”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol. 7 . |
Textual Features | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | MLC
's occasions include the public and private. She opens with an ode on the recent death of the queen's only surviving child
, in which the speaker, unconventionally, rejects the consolation duly offered by... |
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 Production | Carol Ann Duffy | CAD
's volume of public poems composed as national Laureate, Ritual Lighting, with illustrations by |
Textual Production | T. S. Eliot | They printed about 460 copies. The label on the wrapper survives in three different states, as did the label of the previous Hogarth edition of work by Eliot. The Woolfs were to print one more... |
Textual Production | Ephelia | The book was handsomely produced, having a decorated dedication page, and a frontispiece featuring an oval portrait (or fictitious portrait) of Ephelia, with a heraldic badge above the picture and a pedestal bearing her engraved... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Thomas | Dryden, John. The Letters of John Dryden: With Letters Addressed to Him. Editor Ward, Charles E., Duke University Press. 125-8, 132, 186 Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University. |
Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | SC
contributed an elegy to The Nine Muses, the volume which Delarivier Manley
edited on the death of John Dryden
. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 31-3 |
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