McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon.
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Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | This takes the form of a letter from the country. It mounts a bitter attack on Steele
. |
Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | |
Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | Between the first and second volumes of the New Atalantis, Steele
attacked DM
in Tatler no. 63 (not for the first time) as dispensing poison with her tongue. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 279 |
Dedications | Eliza Haywood | EH
published two novels, The Fatal Secret; or, Constancy in Distress, dedicated to William Yonge
(who had just made a huge profit from divorcing his wife
), and The Surprize; or, Constancy Rewarded... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Haywood | This was the first periodical for women to take advantage of the monthly format, which was still fairly new. Unlike other magazines, it used fiction as its staple, while also including advice on behaviour, relationships... |
Textual Production | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | These poems relate or embroider on a tale of interracial lovers whose original source is a bare paragraph in Richard Ligon
's History of Barbados, 1657. Morton, Richard Everett. “Review of Frank Felsenstein, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>English Trader, Indian Maid</span>”;. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 13 , No. 1, pp. 86-8. 87 |
Dedications | Martha Fowke | It was dedicated to Steele
and had a prefatory essay by John Porter
. It was several times re-issued (latterly by the disreputable publisher Edmund Curll
), and the title changed from edition to edition... |
Literary responses | Anne Finch | Richard Steele
in the Tatler (number 10) praised Tonson's miscellany for collecting the best pastorals of the day. McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press. 93 |
death | Henry Fielding | His cousin Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
wrote that HF
and Sir Richard Steele
were both so form'd for Happiness, it is a pity they were not Immortal. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press. 3: 88 |
Textual Features | Sarah Fielding | David Simple predates all fictional work by Samuel Johnson
and all but the earliest works by Henry Fielding
and Samuel Richardson
, which are sometimes mistakenly spoken of as its models. It may be seen... |
Literary responses | Susanna Centlivre | Richard Steele
in the Tatler, 13 and 24 May, took up the cudgels for SC
, and argued against condemning a work on grounds of the author's gender. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 98 |
Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | The omission was itself a political statement: the epilogue is a poem in praise of the then German prince who in due course became George II
, which also dwells on recent politically-caused friction between... |
Publishing | Susanna Centlivre | It was published the following month, ascribed to the Author of The Gamester, Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot. 1 (no. 1): 4 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Hodgson Burnett | FHB
began writing this novel in Washington, but completed it in her grand house in Portland Place, London, which is also the setting for the heart of the story. This story she conceived... |
Textual Features | Frances Brooke | Mary Singleton, supposed author of this paper, with its trenchant comments on society and politics, is an unmarried woman on the verge of fifty, McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press. 14 |
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