Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002.
223-4
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Anthologization | Elizabeth Carter | She printed this with her father's approval and support; he suggested, as scholar Gwen Hampshire
has pointed out, that she should print about three dozen copies. When George Colman
and Bonnell Thornton
included EC
in... |
Anthologization | Catharine Trotter | Several shorter poems by CT
are known today only from their inclusion in George Colman
's and Bonnell Thornton
's anthology Poems by Eminent Ladies in its edition of 1757. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002. 223-4 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | JCM
's nephew William Cowper
the poet, with whom she corresponded, took an interest in her work and was probably the channel through which her poems reached the anthologists Colman
and Thornton
. Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Collecting Women: Poetry and Lives, 1700-1780. Bucknell University Press, 2009. 155n55 |
Friends, Associates | Susannah Dobson | SD
, along with the novelist Charlotte Lennox
and Sylvia (Braithwaite) Thornton
(the wife from 1768 of Bonnell Thornton
), belonged to a network of devoted friends centred on Lydia, Lady Clerke
. Perry, Ruth et al. “Introduction”. Henrietta, edited by Ruth Perry et al., University Press of Kentucky, 2008. n39 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Jones | MJ
corresponded with Charlotte Lennox
and with publisher Ralph Griffiths
and his wife Isabella
. Her friendship was valued by literary men like Samuel Johnson
, Joseph Spence
, Thomas Warton
, and apparently Bonnell Thornton |
Publishing | Mary Jones | This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange
: Anne, daughter of George II
and the late Queen Caroline
. The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ
's friend Martha Lovelace, later... |
Reception | Mary Masters | MM
's friendship with Johnson laid her open to suspicion that he had revised and polished her poems. But this work was praised in the Gentleman's Magazine. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 25 (1755) 190-1 |