Joseph Highmore
's painting of her with book and laurel wreath, and John Fayram
's painting of her as a young Minerva in stylish armour with a copy of Plato
, each of them associated...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Carter
As a youngster of twenty-one (in May 1739), EC
addressed the eminent businessman Edward Cavebreezily, mingling the domestic and the literary.
qtd. in
Chisholm, Kate. “Bluestocking Feminism”. New Rambler, 2003, pp. 60-6.
63
In her mature correspondence with Elizabeth Montagu
both writers discuss their...
Publishing
Jane Brereton
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.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
3 (1733): 208
Textual Production
Jane Brereton
JB
dated her inscription to Queen Caroline
of the first poem in a sixteen-page quarto issued by Cave
as by a Lady: Merlin: A Poem . . . To which is added, The Royal...
Publishing
Jane Brereton
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.
Both The...
Friends, Associates
Jane Brereton
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jane Brereton
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...
Textual Production
Jane Brereton
The Four Last Things in Christian theology are Death, Judgement, Heaven, and Hell. Cave
had initially, untheologically, added Life at the beginning of the list, so JB
's poem is entitled Thoughts on Life, Death...
Publishing
Mary Barber
She had sent the poem nearly two years before this in a letter to Edward Cave
.