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reveals her gender in her preface merely by her use of pronouns. Her motive for publishing was a dire need of money. An unnamed benefactor in her family supplied the need, but she decided...
Publishing
Elizabeth Moody
EM
sent the Monthly editor, Ralph Griffiths
, a satirical ballad, The Distemper'd Muse, A Poem Address'd to F[ulke] G[reville]
Esq., after Greville had vilified the magazine in print.
Rizzo, Betty. “’Downing Everybody’: Johnson and the Grevilles”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 17-46.
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Timeline
1756 or 1757: Frances Greville, in Italy with her family...
Women writers item
1756 or 1757
Frances Greville
, in Italy with her family some months after the death of her eldest son (aged around six), composed a poem which became a landmark text, the Ode to [or Prayer for] Indifference.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.