Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Alexander Pope
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Standard Name: Pope, Alexander
As well as being a translator, critic, and letter-writer, AP
was the major poetic voice of the earlier eighteenth century, an influence on almost everyone who wrote poetry during his lifetime or for some years afterwards.
When reprinted in four volumes, the Memoirs had a quotation from Pope
on the title-page (Tis from high life, high characters are drawn)
Wilson, Harriette. Memoirs of Harriette Wilson. J. J. Stockdale.
prelims
and an advertisement signed by Thomas Little (a pseudonym...
Reception
Harriette Wilson
The Memoirs immediately produced extraordinary sensations in fashionable life,
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber.
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with anguished responses from ex-lovers and moralists, as well as from people in the book trade and people in HW
's own sex trade. Crowds...
Literary responses
Jane Wiseman
JW
may perhaps have been one of those lampooned by Alexander Pope
in his Dunciad, though if so his draft reference to her was dropped before the poem was published. Critic Valerie Rumbold
notes...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
In Three Years After Marriage (a title which alludes to Three Hours After Marriage by Pope
, Gay
, and Arbuthnot
) a beautiful young wife, Matilda, is impervious to advice against quarrelling with her...
Publishing
Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
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...
Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, pp. 32-56.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Virginia Woolf
The new, female Orlando (though his gender has always been subject to hints and dubious suggestions) is essentially unchanged—in identity if not in future. After an interlude among the gipsies, Orlando's new status as an...