Alexander Pope

LMWM acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage and Henry Fielding , but also Edward Young and Samuel Boyse . Books to which...

Commentators seem unanimously to have believed Pope 's pamphlet claim that he dosed Curll with an emetic to punish him for illicitly publishing Court Poems on 26 March 1716—though since Pope also claimed to have...

The report of her death may have been optimistic in calling her an actress of some celebrity at Covent garden and Drury lane Theatre. She worked as an entertainer of several kinds, acting in regular...

Pope mercilessly portrayed ET (then in debtors' prison) in the Dunciad.

From the late 1720s onwards, Lady Mary's life was punctuated by the regular appearance of new attacks by Alexander Pope in his poems: sometimes unmistakable, sometimes so concealed that probably only their immediate circles would...

She acted on her Jacobite principles in attending parliamentary debates, reading the memoirs of statesmen, and visiting Tory detainees in prison. Indeed, though she never questioned that men were intended to manage public affairs, she...

From the time she began writing her Jacobite credo in 1724, MC worked on constructing a domestic cult for the edification of family and friends in the Jacobite faith, in which archives, pictures and poetry...

ESR often sent her poetry to her friends in the course of her letters. Many poems later included in Letters Moral and Entertaining (published in 1729-32) are to be found in Lady Hertford 's letter-book...

He concluded, let Mrs Howard know that I recommend you to the Queen , though he declined to supply a direct introduction to a potential royal patron. Two months later Gay wrote to Swift...

SD 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...

This month Barber's teenage son Rupert was on duty all day to dispense copies to subscribers, at the painter's house in Covent Garden where he was a student or apprentice. The true publication date...

Verses Address'd to the Imitator of Horace, a satiric attack on and riposte to Pope which was probably composed by LMWM and Lord Hervey , appeared in two separate, anonymous, folio editions.

Pattison died of smallpox in July this year, aged about twenty-one. Subscribers to his posthumous poems included Pope , Lady Hertford , Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Laurence Eusden , Matthew Concanen , and Anthony Hammond

Hughes's first edition, 1713, was already equipped with a prefatory account of the lives of its protagonists, which weds their texts to the fictionalised tradition about them. It has in turn been edited by James E. Wellington

She had first translated this passage from the Metamorphoses at the age of sixteen; she says she did the published version at sixty-one. It was printed, like Pope 's imitations, with the Latin original on...