Barbara McGovern
has disposed (hopefully once and for all) of the mistaken story of Pope
's hostility to AF
. In fact, they shared a literary friendship which Finch found valuable.
McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
102ff
She also addressed...
Literary responses
Jane Warton
Joseph Warton
, who wrote on the same subject in the same genre, told a friend by the way her poem was the best of the two.
qtd. in
Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
William Wordsworth
included an excerpt from one of these poems, St John the Baptist, in the manuscript anthology he compiled for Lady Mary Lowther
at Christmas 1819. The anthologised lines end finely, Excess and...
Reception
Laetitia Pilkington
Wordsworth
chose from her works eleven melancholy and religious couplets from Sorrow, for inclusion in his manuscript anthology presented to Lady Mary Lowther
at Christmas 1819. He omitted the later part of the poem...
Timeline
Christmas 1819: William Wordsworth presented Lady Mary Lowther...
Women writers item
Christmas 1819
William Wordsworth
presented Lady Mary Lowther
with a little manuscript volume of poems: those by women were mostly copied from the pages of Poems by Eminent Ladies.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
288
Wordsworth, William, and Anne Finch. Poems and Extracts Chosen by William Wordsworth for an Album presented to Lady Mary Lowther, Christmas 1819. Editor Littledale, Harold, H. Frowde, 1905.