Alexander Pope

This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine

In the essay as printed, she begins by asking whether nature can really have designed the two human sexes so unequally as is generally believed. Even the faults of which women stand accused—following fashion, inventing...

These stories tend to stress the importance of strong moral instruction and guidance for children. The title objects in Grandmamma's Pockets deliver a book-length lesson in appropriate behaviour and domestic economy. Grandmamma, who succeeds...

She dedicates A Ballad of Forgotten Tunes to Vernon Lee , and addresses her by name in its closing stanza. She parodies the style of Pope in Celia's Homecoming, written for her sister Mabel

DPC was one of those claiming serious status for the novel by literary allusion. She uses Horace on her title-page, Pope to head the whole novel, and for chapter-headings Chaucer , Shakespeare , Goldsmith ...

The title of this work quotes Pope 's phrase about woman as God's last, best gift to Adam after his creation.

CN refers to several canonical English names (Pope , Reynolds , Garrick , Shakespeare , and Edmund Kean in her first poem), and relates closely to continental women. She praises Germaine de Staël for...

The quotations that head her chapters range through more than a dozen well-known male names from Shakespeare through Racine in French, Prior and Pope to Sterne and Burke , plus a couple of unidentified women....

EH writes without overall construction, jumping from one topic and one anecdote to another. By this means, however, she captures both the inconsequential flavour of a life lived without overall plan and at the whim...

AS said she was attempting to combine the passion of Pope 's Eloisa with the tenderness of Prior 's Emma, while moderating the over-enthusiasm in love of both these heroines. In the first epistle her...

JB 's true attitude to her own poetic vocation is hard to fathom. In An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the Death of Mr. Addison she calls herself the meanest of the tuneful...

One of the essays in this book is devoted to the topic of the author's mother's lover. She titled it What Sins to Me Unknown Dipped Me in Ink?—a question asked by Alexander Pope

The first chapter is has an epigraph from Pope (A youth of frolic, an old age of cards) and Croker goes on to head her chapters with great literary names like Milton and...

AT makes it clear she is no proto-feminist: If women are thought to possess minds less capable of solid reflection than men, they owe this conjecture entirely to their own vanity, and erroneous method of...

EH seeks to raise the canonical status of the novel in this work not only by serious politico-philosophical content, but also by chapter-heading quotations from the classics (from Horace , Shakespeare , and Milton to...