Her father, David Mallet
, was well-known as a poet and dramatist. During Dorothea's childhood his career prospered; he was a friend of Pope
and an active member of the political opposition centred on the...
Friends, Associates
Eliza Haywood
At this point in her life EH
entered on literary relationships with Aaron Hill
(who, with some gallant condescension, was a good friend to women writers) and his circle. They included Richard Savage
(who has...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Boyd
Eugenia's next letter (planned to appear as the second monthly number, with its own title-page) focuses on the recent death of Lord Abergavenny
. Fifteen years earlier this man caught his wife
in adultery, threw...
The Hermit of Priestland. A Legendary Tale was written for a friend whom RR
visited when he had just fitted up a hermitage on his Hampshire estate and installed a hermit.
Roberts, Radagunda. Albert, Edward and Laura, and The Hermit of Priestland: Three Legendary Tales. J. Dodsley, 1783.
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It is headed...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Meeke
The Old Wife and Young Husband (with quotations from David Mallet
and Thomas Southerne
on its title-page) opens in medias res as Jane Hanham cries, Mercy upon me, brother!—good Heavens! Captain, how could you think...
Literary responses
Eliza Haywood
The personal attacks in this work provoked backlash. Haywood was either reproved or attacked in her turn by Richard Savage
, Martha Fowke
, and David Mallet
, and their attacks established the convention that...
Publishing
Elizabeth Gilding
Half a dozen more Eliza poems appeared there over the next few months. They include A New Version of the Old Ballad, usually called, William and Margaret (a re-working and expansion in blank verse of...
Timeline
9 May 1755: David Mallet's masque Britannia, with music...
Writing climate item
9 May 1755
David Mallet
's masque Britannia, with music by Thomas Arne
, had its first performance.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.