Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 33-49.
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Dedications | Mary Jones | This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange
: Anne, daughter of George II
and the late Queen Caroline
. The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ
's friend Martha Lovelace, later... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Chandler | She dedicated it to her doctor brother John
, saying it was you first gave me Courage to appear abroad— Shuttleton, David. “’All Passion Extinguish’d’: The Case of Mary Chandler, 1687-1745”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 33-49. 36 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Collier | MC
shows herself perfectly at home with the heroic couplet form, with classical allusions, and other standard imagery. But her political attitudes—her unapologetic stance, her decisive self-identification with others of her oppressed gender and rank—are... |
Occupation | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Among writers who received Lady Hertford's patronage were Elizabeth Singer Rowe
, Elizabeth Boyd
, Elizabeth Carter
, Mary Chandler
, Isaac Watts
, Laurence Eusden
(for whom she set topics of occasional poems), James Thomson |
Occupation | Elizabeth Elstob | The duchess was the only child of Edward Harley
(later Lord Oxford), whose manuscript collection EE
had used in her youth. It was Mary Pendarves, later Delany
, who arranged this, as the only post... |
Publishing | Mary Leapor | The arrangements for publication had not been entirely smooth sailing. ML
was insulted when Freemantle predicted that the book might make her £10. Rizzo, Betty. “Molly Leapor: An Anxiety for Influence”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol. 4 , 1991, pp. 313-43. 322 |
Publishing | Mary Collier | Another edition, published at Petersfield with no date given, bore the title The Poems of Mary Collier, The Washerwoman of Petersfield; to which is prefix'd her Life, Drawn by Herself, A New Edition. Though... |
Textual Features | Robert Southey | Against the trend of the times, RS
aimed for historical interest rather than literary canonicity, compiling in his Specimens of the Later English Poets a collection of representative voices rather than a garland: The taste... |
Textual Features | Mary Collier | The other contents of her Poems are in their way as remarkable as The Woman's Labour. She versifies both a Spectator essay (number 375) and passages from the Bible. Of these, Three Wise... |
Textual Production | Mary Collier | MC
published her georgic poem The Woman's Labour: An Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck, as Mary Collier, now a washer-woman, at Petersfield in Hampshire. Bibliographer |
Textual Production | Ann Yearsley | The controversy around this publication has ensured that it remains AY
's most famous publication. More's revisions to Yearsley's manuscripts laid an important foundation stone for their subsequent quarrel. Since More then destroyed the manuscripts... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catharine Trotter | The poem praises the queen's protégé Stephen Duck
(who had been appointed librarian and keeper of the hermitage in 1735), as [b]y art unaided, and by want depress'd: just the situation of a typical... |