Elizabeth Singer Rowe

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Standard Name: Rowe, Elizabeth Singer
Birth Name: Elizabeth Singer
Married Name: Elizabeth Rowe
Pseudonym: Philomela
Pseudonym: The Pindarick Lady
Pseudonym: The Pindarical Lady
Pseudonym: The Author of Friendship in Death
ESR wrote witty, topical, satirical poetry during the 1690s, followed later in life by letters, essays, fiction (often epistolary), and a wide range of poetic modes, often though not invariably with a moral or religious emphasis. Her reputation as a moral and devotional writer during her lifetime and for some time afterwards stood extremely high. Current critical debate is establishing the element of proto-feminist or amatory fiction (what Paula Backscheider calls experimental, subversive, and transgressive) in her prose against the didactic-devotional element.
Backscheider, Paula R. Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Transcription by Elizabeth Carter of a poem by Elizabeth Rowe, on paper surrounded by a deep blue background. "To Lady Brooke" reads in part: "your Looks appear / Artless as Virtue undisguised & clear / Bright as your sparkling Wit your lovely Eyes / Like that they please . . . .”

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Steele
AS was said to have begun writing poetry at a very early age.
Steele, Anne. The Works of Mrs. Anne Steele. Munroe, Francis and Parker, 1808, 2 vols.
prelims
Her surviving works show the influence of Elizabeth Singer Rowe , who shares her heightened devotional style in both verse and...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Deverell
The additional material keeps up the feminist interest. On Thanksgiving is headed by a quotation from Elizabeth Rowe , and offers examples of thankfulness in female worthies of the Bible, like Deborah, Judith, Esther...
Intertextuality and Influence Adelaide O'Keeffe
This book might be regarded as a work of ancient Jewish history; it is also highly relevant to experiments in the possible reach of the historical novel back into ancient times. As a biblical paraphrase...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Elstob
Begun in order to help the work of a female student, this work reiterates more strongly EE 's plea for opening the arena of scholarship to women. For examples of poetic practice she turns to...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Savage
The diary also records SS 's delight in such biographical religious texts as the Lives of Mrs. Bury , Mrs. Rowe , Mrs. Walker .
Williams, Sir John Bickerton, and Sarah Savage. Memoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Savage. 4th ed., Holdsworth and Ball, 1829.
30
Women's writing on pious topics was important to her...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB 's first hymn presents the world, as God creates and adorns it and pronounces it good, as a female body.
Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications, 2016.
49-50
She is also alert to female precedents. Her Verses on Mrs Rowe recall...
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Finch
Although AF is often thought of as a writer of pastoral, on account of the fame of A Noctural Reverie, this mode is fairly rare in her work. She is a very social poet....
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Francis
AF writes in the style of mid-century poets Gray and especially Collins , whose names she specifically invokes and whose words she echoes, along with classics of the past like Petrarch . She records an...
Intertextuality and Influence Clara Reeve
Charoba is CR 's retelling of a story which she almost certainly found in Elizabeth Singer Rowe 's History of Joseph. She builds here on Rowe (rather than on Bishop Lowth ) in suggesting...
Literary responses Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford
The writing of verse began in Frances Thynne's life almost as early as the writing of letters: it must have been a poem rather than a letter that evoked from Elizabeth Singer Rowe the response:...
Literary responses Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford
Elizabeth Rowe , in proposing that she should pass this, in manuscript, to Watts, said he would be as proud as if an angel had given him a wreath of immortal amaranthus.
qtd. in
Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940.
354
Occupation Edmund Curll
Curll was apprenticed sometime around 1697 to 1699, and set up in business for himself by early 1706.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
12, 22
He became a particularly agile entrepreneur with a nose for new market niches and an...
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
Occupation Elizabeth Tipper
After this period ET 's prospects improved, to include employment, social life, and Honourable Friendship, but then another dark cloud intervened.
Tipper, Elizabeth. The Pilgrim’s Viaticum. Printed by J. Wilkins, 1698.
20
At the time of publication she was working hard, since she spent...
Publishing Elizabeth Elstob
Its full title is An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory , Anciently used in the English-Saxon Church. Giving an Account of the Conversion of the English from Paganism to Christianity. It...

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