Matthew Prior

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...

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.

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

Under a perfunctory pretence of writing about the monarchs Henry VI and Edward IV , with dignifying chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Milton , Thomson , Prior , Gray , Pope , and the poems of...

The title-page quotes Matthew Prior about defying the herd of critics.ML 's preface says that on the precedent of those of my Sex who have wrote before me she must expect censure; she...

Another poem written not long afterwards and preserved not in The Family Miscellany but in other family papers is entitled Emma to Henry, in allusion to Matthew Prior 's Henry and Emma...

Steele provided managerial help (and money, and a prologue) towards its stage success. The epilogue, by Matthew Prior , prophesied a great future for female dramatists (ironically, since this was DM 's last play)...

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...

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...

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)

She left the stock, the house, and several keepsakes to her sister, to her nephew Alfred William both her inkstand and her copy of John Hawkesworth 's translation of Fénelon 's Télémaque (apparently recognizing William...

Elizabeth Singer (later ESR ) engaged in a correspondence, light-hearted at least on his side, with the poet Matthew Prior , who flirted with her and made fun of her godliness.

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...

Elizabeth Singer (later ESR ) was courted by several men. Whether or not she was seriously pursued by either Dunton or Prior (both worldly figures), her suitors included at least two dissenting clergymen. The Rev....

ESR often sent her poetry to her friends in the course of her letters. Many poems later included in Letters Moral and Entertaining (published in 1729-32) are to be found in Lady Hertford 's letter-book...