Reynolds, Sir Joshua. The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Editors Ingamells, John and John Edgcumbe, Yale University Press.
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Occupation | Frances Reynolds | She was also already a painter on her own account. She had done a portrait of Joshua around 1746 (now in the Cottonian Collection in the city museum and art gallery of Plymouth) Reynolds, Sir Joshua. The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Editors Ingamells, John and John Edgcumbe, Yale University Press. 264 |
Textual Features | Katherine Philips | In some sense, therefore, she dictated the terms of the anthology. Its full title was The Virgin Muse: Being a Collection of Poems from our Most Celebrated English Poets, designed for the use of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte McCarthy | The poems include reworkings of pastoral, occasional poems (one of them inscribed in a volume belonging to a friend), and comment on public affairs. The opening three, addressed to Chloe, are conventional in tone... |
Textual Production | Delarivier Manley | Steele
provided managerial help (and money, and a prologue) towards its stage success. Ballaster, Ros. “Early Women Writers: Lives and Times. Delarivier Manley (c. 1663-1724)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol. 5 , No. 1, pp. 2-5. 3 |
Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | Another poem written not long afterwards and preserved not in The Family Miscellany but in other family papers is entitled Emma to Henry, Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press. 268 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Latter | The title-page quotes Matthew Prior
about defying the herd of critics. Latter, Mary. The Miscellaneous Works, in Prose and Verse. C. Pocock. title-page |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Gerard | This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine |
Anthologization | Martha Fowke | Five poems by MF
(as Mrs. Fowke) appeared in good poetic company (with Pope
, Prior
, Susanna Centlivre
, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, and others) in Anthony Hammond
's A New Miscellany, published on 19 May 1720. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Fielding | This is the earliest serious piece of criticism on Clarissa. It takes the form of a letter from a fictional impartial observer to the novelist, reporting on public opinion as expressed in a series... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Deverell | |
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 |
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... |
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)... |
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