Edward Cave

AKE 's maternal grandmother, Mary (Jacob) Barrett , was a Kentish woman who had been a friend of the bluestocking Elizabeth Carter , while her husband belonged (possibly through her) to Carter's literary circle, and...

He then began writing An Epistle to the Inhabitants of Gillingham, in the county of Dorset: wherein is a looking-glass for the faithful, which he did not finish until 1781, by which time he...

In her youth JB knew Thomas Beach, who grew up at Wrexham, in the same district as herself (and later joined in the same verse exchanges in the Gentleman's Magazine), and probably...

Among the households where she lived were those of Elizabeth Carter (who sometimes read her work and discussed it with her) and of Edward Cave (the proprietor of the Gentleman's Magazine). It was Carter...

Cave seems thus to have inspired JB to write the second major poem in her publication of October 1735—Merlin: A Poem . . . To which is added, The Royal Hermitage: A Poem—though...

Joseph Highmore painted EC in about 1738, holding a book in her hand and about to be crowned with a laurel wreath. This picture seems to be related to Samuel Johnson 's poem To Eliza...

Her connection with the Gentleman's Magazine was nothing like a modern job with set hours, duties, and remuneration. Edward Cave , its founder and proprietor, was her father's friend; she had submitted poetry to the...

She had sent the poem nearly two years before this in a letter to Edward Cave .

In the Gentleman's Magazine, Edward Cave announced his competition for a poem on the busts of British worthies set up in Queen Caroline 's Cave or Grotto at Richmond.

Fidelia reappeared unmistakably in the Gentleman's Magazine with Fidelia to Sylvanus Urban, a verse epistle in her former jaunty style to the magazine's proprietor, Edward Cave.

In the same Gentleman's Magazine issue that suggested she might be nothing but a disguise for the editor , appeared Fidelia 's To the unknown Gent [sic] who signs Sylvius.

Edward Cave (for whom JB had been a regular contributor) posthumously published, by subscription, her Poems on Several Occasions . . . with Letters to her Friends, bearing the date of 1744.

The Gentleman's Magazine published, with her name, a poem by MM together with her self-defence (addressed to the editor, Sylvanus Urban ) against an attack in the London Magazine.

EC issued, through Cave , in a small number of copies intended purely for friends and patrons, a slim quarto bearing her name: Poems upon Particular Occasions.

This volume was printed for the Author. Its 833 subscribers (for 903 copies) included Samuel Johnson , Mrs Gardiner of Snow-Hill, Thomas Birch , a John Cockburne who may well have...