Alicia D'Anvers

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Standard Name: D'Anvers, Alicia
Birth Name: Alice Clarke
Married Name: Alice Danvers
Self-constructed Name: Alicia D'Anvers
ADA is a remarkably skilled and hard-hitting verse satirist of the late Restoration period, who writes about international politics and about the misogynist, ingrown, self-satisfied culture of the university to whose press her father was printer.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
death Edmund Spenser
Spenser's early women readers who were also poets seem to have included An Collins and Alicia D'Anvers . Later women writers in English either found him useful for raising the status of the romance genre...
Textual Features Germaine Greer
Its nearly fifty poets include Margaret Cavendish , Katherine Philips , and Aphra Behn ; however, the anthology also presents more obscure writers like Diana Primrose , An Collins , Mary Carey , Anna Trapnel
Textual Production Jan Morris
Morris was writing too early to know of the existence of that splendid Oxford satirist Alicia D'Anvers , or to include in a section called Port and PrejudiceMary Jones 's early-eighteenth-century fantasy of a...

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Texts

D’Anvers, Alicia. A Poem upon His Sacred Majesty. Tho. Bever, 1691.
D’Anvers, Alicia. Academia. Randal Taylor, 1691.
D’Anvers, Alicia. The Oxford-Act. Randal Taylor, 1693.