Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Delarivier Manley | DM
must have read widely in French fiction, which she disparaged as books of chivalry and romances. Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii. vii |
Family and Intimate relationships | W. H. Auden | Nicholas Jenkins
of Stanford University
formerly maintained on his website at http://www.stanford.edu/~njenkins/ a section called W. H. Auden. Family Ghosts, designed to show how Auden's family, despite his claims to ordinariness, sprang from a... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Thomas | Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000. 152 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sappho | Sappho
's name was an honorific for women writers for generations. George Puttenham
may have been the first to use it to compliment a writing woman: in Parthienades, 1579, he said that Queen Elizabeth |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | It gathered together published and unpublished work (some written at boarding-school) both religious and secular: hymns, epistles, odes, pastorals (including an imitation of Anne Killigrew
and an elegy for Queen Mary
), praise of King William |
Literary responses | Katherine Philips | Soon after KP
's death Sir William Temple
published an elegy on her, made at the Desire of My Lady Temple qtd. in Roberts, William, scholar. “Sir William Temple on Orinda: Neglected Publications”. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. 57 , 1963, pp. 328-36. 332-3 |
Literary Setting | Mary Boyle | MB
here recounts the story, set during the final days of James II
's reign, of Mary Savile, a fictional maid of honour toMary of Modena
, James's wife (whose actual maids of honour... |
Occupation | Anne Finch | After nine years of marriage, Mary and James arrived in England in May 1682, since her Roman Catholic faith and his conversion to Catholicism made any earlier appearance in England too risky. AF
became Mary's... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Tipper | Her own opening poem, On the Holy Bible, in stately, assured couplets, firmly asserts that her religious theme is higher than earthly glory, hero's deeds or lover's ecstasies, and she therefore begs: Not Mortal... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Thomas | This collection contains the harvest of Thomas's poetic career. Her Muse, she says, is unfashionably incapable of dealing with love or obscenity: this shows clearly that her original poetic context was a Restoration one. Thomas, Elizabeth, 1675 - 1731. Miscellany Poems on Several Subjects. Thomas Combes, 1722. 50-1 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Teft | She praises Pope
, reproves Richardson
for his second part of Pamela (Mr B., she says, is no reward for Pamela's virtue), and notes that women's tea-table conversation includes acute comment on authors. She offers... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | The Vision (first of her poems both in the Tonson volume and in the posthumous Miscellaneous Works) and On the Creation both express the resolve to choose religious themes for the future. Two extended... |
Textual Features | Clara Reeve | Her Address to the Reader notes the recent increase in the number of women writers commanding critical respect, and observes that every woman publishing with success will inspire a couple of others to try. Most... |
Textual Production | Damaris Masham | Further reference to poetry in her letters appears to be connected with another poem she sent Locke after long preamble. First she told him her fancy was much inclined to poetry, and added you may... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Judith Sargent Murray | She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism... |