Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952.
229-30
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Susanna Centlivre | In the 1720s she belonged to an informal literary club which included Anthony Hammond
(with whom she was supposed to have had her most youthful liaison), Ambrose Philips
, Martha Fowke
, and Eliza Haywood
. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952. 229-30 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Dacier | For the moment it was Dacier's version which prevailed. Her translation went through three more editions before the end of the century; it was praised by La Motte
, and in England influenced Ambrose Philips |
Leisure and Society | Mary Deverell | When in her teens she attended performances of Ambrose Philips
's The Distressed Mother and Nicholas Rowe
's The Fair Penitent, she says, I shed more real tears on the occasion, than would have... |
Publishing | Judith Cowper Madan | Verses written extempore in Mr A[shley] C[owper]
's Coke
upon Littleton (the title of a standard legal textbook) by Judith Cowper
(later Madan), appeared, to her dismay, in Ambrose Philips
's The Free-Thinker. |
Reception | Sappho | Among the earliest of Sappho
's translators into English was Anne Finch
; among recent translators is Mary Barnard
, 1958. Stevie Smith
declined to take her on. Finch chose to render not a love-poem... |
Textual Features | Sarah Dixon | SD
expresses personal emotion eloquently and social observation sardonically. The Wish follows sedately in the country-retirement tradition of John Pomfret
, but To Miranda likens herself to Job, and adds a vivid image of shipwreck:... |
Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | Several writings here by JCM
are not known from other sources, like a verse satire on a tragedy by Ambrose Philips
(who had published and garbled her verses Written Extempore in Mr Ashley Cowper's Coke... |