Thomas Ken
Standard Name: Ken, Thomas
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Friends, Associates | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | The young Frances Thynne grew up in a literary ambience. Her early friends included Frances Worsley, later Lady Carteret
(who apparently patronised women writers later, when her husband was Viceroy of Ireland). Family friends from... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Finch | AF
enjoyed personal friendships with a number of distinguished men, among them Bishop Thomas Ken
. She valued female friendship very highly; women friends figure prominently in her poetry. Lady Catherine Jones
, to whom... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | ESR
enjoyed important friendships from around the age of twenty with Anne Finch, Lady Winchilsea
, and Lady Hertford
. Finch was twelve years older than ESR
, and Hertford twenty-five years younger. They each... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Justice | She briefly recapiculates details from her previously-described Russian experience: the way she made herself popular with the sailors by getting rum added to their tea; her teaching use of hymns like Awake my soul and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Ridler | This contains one of her best-known pieces, For a Child Expected, which begins: Lovers whose lifted hands are candles in winter, and continues through all that our passion would yield / We put to... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Justice | By mid-1734, EJ
, in debt because of her divorced husband
's failure to pay her maintenance, took a job as governess to the three daughters of Hill Evans
, a British merchant who lived... |
Performance of text | Anne Finch | |
Textual Production | Emma Marshall | After Cowper, EMdid the poet George Herbert
in Under Salisbury Spire, in the Days of George Herbert, the Recollections of Magdalene Wydville and the diarist Margaret Hoby
in Eventide Light; or, Passages in the... |
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