CG
's professional reputation during her lifetime was that of a prodigy. Even Laetitia Pilkington
shared this view: her Learning appeared like the Gift poured out on the Apostles, of speaking all Languages, without the...
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...
Friends, Associates
Constantia Grierson
CG
was a friend from their adolescence of the young women who became the poets Mary Barber
and Laetitia Pilkington
. Their shared friendship with Jonathan Swift
has been an element in preserving some memory...
Literary responses
Mary Jones
Catherine Talbot
found Holt Waters and A Letter to Doctor Pitt indelicate and was surprised that Carter
liked MJ
's poetry.
Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013.
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The collection was warmly praised by Ralph Griffiths
in the Monthly Review:...
Timeline
By July 1755: Thomas Amory published Memoirs of the Lives...
Writing climate item
By July 1755
Thomas Amory
published Memoirs of the Lives of Several Ladies of Great Britain (an odd, ragbag work which is not, however, history or biography, but is generally classed as a novel).
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
