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.
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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.
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Kelty, Mary Ann. Trials: A Tale. Whittaker, 1824, 3 vols.
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Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford
Her favourite topics—religious devotion, social interaction, and landscape description—are frequently linked. She hopes that contemplating the beauties of nature will lead her thoughts to their Creator, or draws moral lessons from particular natural effects, like...