Bigold, Melanie. “Elizabeth Rowe’s Fictional and Familiar Letters: Exemplarity, Enthusiasm, and the Production of Posthumous Meaning”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
29
, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-14. 5
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Dedications | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Rowe had used the phrase Epistles from the Dead to the Living about her own letters not long after her husband's death. Bigold, Melanie. “Elizabeth Rowe’s Fictional and Familiar Letters: Exemplarity, Enthusiasm, and the Production of Posthumous Meaning”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 29 , No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-14. 5 |
Dedications | Mary Julia Young | The dedication to Mrs Trant
(presumably the same who also received a dedication from Charlotte Brooke
) mentions that she can boast of being allied toEdward Young
. In 2007 the reprint firm of... |
Education | Ann Yearsley | AY
's mother taught her to read, to think, and to question. Her brother taught her to write. Her family owned some books, notably Edward Young
's Night Thoughts, which she got to know almost by heart. Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996. 14 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Julia Young | MJY
claimed late in life to be the the only living relative of the respected poet and clergyman Edward Young
(1683-1765)—whose only child, Frederick Young
(1732-88), apparently never married. The poet, she says, was a... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Sheridan | In London they quickly acquired an influential and highly talented circle of friends, including Samuel Johnson
, Samuel Richardson
, Edward Young
, Frances Brooke
, Sarah Scott
, and Sarah Fielding
. Richardson admired... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Francis | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | The day was spent travelling from Glasgow to Inveraray. The writer throws in quotations and allusions (Edward Young
, the Bible, Macpherson
's Ossian and Homer
's Odyssey, Sterne
and Smollett |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Jacson | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Yearsley | AY
's mother and elder brother both guided her early development towards bookishness. Their small store of books included Edward Young
's Night Thoughts, an importance influence on her poetry. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Latter | The first letter, the earliest piece in the volume, was said to have been written seventeen years ago at the age of seventeen: to Myra, which suggests that ML
may have been one among... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Corp | HC
's first title-page bears a quotation from Edward Young
. Her introductory address apologises for imperfections which she trusts the critical reader to overlook, and says she means her work primarily for the younger... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | The title-page quotes Edward Young
on the dangers, for a woman, of love. An Advertisement calls the author only an editor of a French original, but says so many changes have been made that little... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The epigraph on the first title-page is the sonnet by Queen Elizabeth
beginning The toppe of hope, now generally known by the title of Doubt of Future Foes. The second volume's title-page is... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Corp | The title-page quotes Edward Young
. HC
comments approvingly on the spread of education for the poor, who are now admitted to that equality which God ordains in intellectual improvement. Corp, Harriet. Familiar Scenes, Histories, and Reflections. Whittaker, 1821. 2 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Talbot | This essay, an answer to number 11, which had taken the form of a letter from To-day, displays CT
's characteristic whimsical ingenuity. Night, claiming to be the elder sister of Today, defends dark... |