Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang, 1973.
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Occupation | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Among writers who received Lady Hertford's patronage were Elizabeth Singer Rowe
, Elizabeth Boyd
, Elizabeth Carter
, Mary Chandler
, Isaac Watts
, Laurence Eusden
(for whom she set topics of occasional poems), James Thomson |
Publishing | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | 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... |
Reception | Emily Dickinson | Because of the extent to which ED
's concentrated and elusive verse, as well as her dissent from religious and social orthodoxies, seem to presage modernism, she has been considered the sole serious writer among... |
Reception | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | The same month Benjamin Colman
's tribute was published on the front page of the Boston Weekly News-Letter. Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang, 1973. 77 |
Textual Features | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
opens her story with Jane Fairfax as a little orphan growing up in the family of Colonel and Mrs Campbell, whose naughty daughter Euphrasia is a likable foil to her throughout. She ends it... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Heyrick | She does not eschew politics on account of her readers' youth, but delivers an anti-war and anti-imperial message: The finest sight that could possibly be exhibited to me on earth, would be not a great... |
Textual Features | Hannah Griffitts | HG
admired the English religious writer Isaac Watts
. Much of her poetry and many of her prose essays have religious themes; several are commemorative in function. Her prose can be as imaginative as her... |
Textual Production | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Frances Thynne, later Hertford, began letter-writing at an early age. She was eleven when her grandfather
was glad to find her in an hopeful way of being a good scribe, qtd. in Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940. 7 |
Textual Production | Sarah Trimmer | |
Textual Production | Ethel Savi | ES
published a novel entitled Satan Finds, about post-war moral and social issues in rapidly changing Britain. The title is taken from Isaac Watts
's poem Against Idleness and Mischief, one stanza... |
Textual Production | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | They later reached print in the Miscellaneous Works of Elizabeth Rowe and in a posthumous publication by Watts
. The author's manuscript title is longer: Verses to the Memory of Mrs. Rowe who dy'd of... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | ESR
's friend Lady Hertford
and her admirer Isaac Watts
published, by her desire, the first of her posthumous works: Devout Exercises of the Heart. Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang, 1973. 93 |
Textual Production | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Frances Hertford and Elizabeth Singer Rowe
had each urged the other to publish her work. After Rowe's death Hertford joined with Isaac Watts
in posthumous editing of Rowe for print. |
Textual Production | Mary Ann Kelty | As the author of The Favourite of Nature, MAK
published her third novel, Trials: A Tale: without dedication this time, but with a quotation on the title-page from Isaac Watts
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 582 Kelty, Mary Ann. Trials: A Tale. Whittaker, 1824, 3 vols. prelims |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Bury | This printed version of EB
's diary was Abbreviated and Reduced under some Proper Heads. Chronological order operates within each topic-section but not overall. Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Editor Bury, Samuel, Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint, 1720. 53 |
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