Anne, Lady Southwell,. “Introduction”. The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book, edited by Jean Klene, Renaissance English Text Society, p. xi - xliii.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Anne, Lady Southwell | On the monument to ALS
in Acton church, her widower
called her a Darlinge of the Nine.George Ballard
mentioned her, but then until the late-twentieth century she was virtually forgotten. Anne, Lady Southwell,. “Introduction”. The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book, edited by Jean Klene, Renaissance English Text Society, p. xi - xliii. xxii Anne, Lady Southwell,. The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book. Editor Klene, Jean, Renaissance English Text Society. 115 |
Textual Production | Mary Astell | About the same year MA
seems to have earnestly solicited some Learned Ladies of her Acquaintance to contribute their assistance towards Compiling a Book of Natural Philosophy. Ballard, George. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain. Editor Perry, Ruth, Wayne State University Press. 426 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | EOB
writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld
for praising Elizabeth Rowe
. She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington
is the real author of... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Chapone | SC
was a great networker. Having met George Ballard
, a local man (perhaps because her sister was a patient of his mother, who was a midwife), she introduced him to Elizabeth Elstob
and to... |
Textual Features | Sarah Chapone | SC
used letters to introduce John Wesley
to the works of Mary Astell
—just as, later, she used letters to raise the consciousness of George Ballard
. |
Textual Production | Sarah Chapone | Both Mary Pendarves (later Mary Delany)
and John Wesley
had read this remarkable work in manuscript the previous year. (Wesley had been reading her writing with enjoyment since at least April 1733.) Glover, Susan Paterson, and Sarah Chapone. “Introduction”. The Hardships of the English Laws, Routledge, pp. 1-16. 11 |
Textual Production | Sarah Chapone | SC
had an important role in George Ballard
's pioneering work of women's history and women's biography. She introduced him to an even more important influence, Elizabeth Elstob
; she helped in his research; and... |
Reception | Sarah Chapone | SC
's friend and printer Richardson
saw her project in a different and far more simple light than she did: as the administering by a good woman of an antidote to the Poison shed by... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Delany | Back in England in her second widowhood, MD
was a frequent visitor to her lifelong, very close friend the Duchess of Portland
. The duchess, an amateur scientist of unusual talent and achievement, brought MD |
Reception | Mary Delany | George Ballard
honoured MD
with the dedication of the second volume of his Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, 1752, calling her the truest judge and brightest pattern Thaddeus, Janice. “Mary Delany, Model to the Age”. History, Gender & Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Beth Fowkes Tobin, University of Georgia Press, pp. 113-40. 135 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater | Lady Bridgewater's public reputation rested at first on the epitaph written on her by her husband
, which George Ballard
printed in full in his Memoirs of Eminent Ladies. Travitsky, Betty, and Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater. “Subordination and Authorship: Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton”. Subordination and Authorship: the case of Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton and her &quot:loose papers", Tempe, Ariz., pp. 1-172. 83-5 |
Travel | Elizabeth Elstob | |
Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Elstob | She got as far as renting a house for her school, but it seems that events then overtook her. Since her edition had failed, she had to refund money put up by subscribers, and once... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Elstob | By this time, however, she was acquiring a circle of patrons. She had met Sarah Chapone
, parson's wife and proto-feminist, who this same year published her anonymous, hard-hitting The Hardships of the English Laws... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Elstob | Ralph Thoresby
recorded on 22 January 1709 that EE
had published some composures of her own Thoresby, Ralph. The Diary of Ralph Thoresby. Editor Hunter, Joseph, H. Colburn and R. Bentley. 2: 27 |