Barrell, Maria. Reveries du Coeur. Dodsley, Walter, Owen, and Yeats.
prelims
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Maria Barrell | This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior
on the title-page. Barrell, Maria. Reveries du Coeur. Dodsley, Walter, Owen, and Yeats. prelims |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Brereton | In the first of this group of poems, Melissa declares her own inferiority to Fidelia (with a brief survey of other poets including Pope
, Buckingham
, Prior
, Dryden
and Finch
). |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Bryan | Since other poems bring Emma together with a man called Henry, this seems to allude to Matthew Prior
's once famous ballad Henry and Emma. |
Publishing | Anne Burke | A payment from the publisher of five guineas, with the same amount again to follow if the book earned it, made to Anne Ustick (or perhaps Urtick) suggests that this may have been AB |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Charlotte Bury | The title-page quotes supposedly from Pope
but actually from Prior
: Nor tears that wash out sin, can wash out shame. Bury, Lady Charlotte. The Divorced. Henry Colburn. title-page |
Textual Production | Medora Gordon Byron | It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press
, with a quotation from Francis Bacon
on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare
, Swift
, Prior
, Thomson
, Goldsmith
, Edward Young |
politics | Mary Caesar | From the time she began writing her Jacobite credo in 1724, MC
worked on constructing a domestic cult for the edification of family and friends in the Jacobite faith, in which archives, pictures and poetry... |
Literary responses | Mary Caesar | She was just as insecure about her style and presentation in letters as in her journal, and elicited reassuring praise from Pope
, Prior, Swift
, Lord Orrery
, and Lord Lansdowne
. Rumbold, Valerie. “The Jacobite vision of Mary Caesar”. Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, edited by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, Batsford, pp. 178-98. 181-2 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Caesar | MC
shared her husband's network of high-level connections in circles of Jacobites
and Jacobite sympathisers. She was a friend of the writers Pope
, Prior
, Swift
, and Mary Barber
, and of the... |
politics | Mary Caesar | She acted on her Jacobite principles in attending parliamentary debates, reading the memoirs of statesmen, and visiting Tory detainees in prison. Indeed, though she never questioned that men were intended to manage public affairs, she... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rosa Nouchette Carey | One of the many novels which RNC
chose to dignify by quotations to head her chapters, this seems to make a particular attempt to impress. Those quoted imply considerable learning, even if (as seems likely)... |
Textual Features | Jane Cave | One interesting feature is the inclusion of nine poems by other authors: the canonical Prior
, Swift
, and Pope
, the lesser-known men John Scott
, William Broome
, and Nathaniel Cotton
, and... |
Occupation | Edmund Curll | Curll was apprenticed sometime around 1697 to 1699, and set up in business for himself by early 1706. Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press. 12, 22 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Deverell | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Elstob | Begun in order to help the work of a female student, this work reiterates more strongly EE
's plea for opening the arena of scholarship to women. For examples of poetic practice she turns to... |
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