Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Alexander Pope
-
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.
He concluded, let Mrs Howard
know that I recommend you to the Queen
,
Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, Vol.
xviii
, pp. 155-74.
170
though he declined to supply a direct introduction to a potential royal patron. Two months later Gay
wrote to Swift...
Textual Production
Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB
published her longest poem, a controversial and important analysis of the current state of the nation, of recent history, politics, and war: Eighteen Hundred and Eleven.
As precedent for titling a poem about...
Textual Production
Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB
's niece
wrote of her (with an echo of Pope
on himself) that while yet a child, she was surprised to find herself a poet.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi.
This extended essay is excellent on Pope
as well as on Akenside.
Family and Intimate relationships
Penelope Aubin
If Sir Richard Temple was indeed PA
's father, then she was the unacknowledged half-sister of Richard Temple, Viscount Cobham
, famous as an Opposition politician, landscape gardener, and patron of Alexander Pope
: a...
Intertextuality and Influence
Penelope Aubin
PA
's preface attacks the abominable Writings of the freethinker John Toland
Welham, Debbie. “The Political Afterlife of Resentment in Penelope Aubin’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Life and Amorous Adventures of Lucinda</span> (1721)”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
20
, No. 1, pp. 49-63.
52
and promises: If this Trifle sells you may be sure to hear of me again.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
It asserts her claim that she writes...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anna Atkins
She gives her chapters epigraphs, many of them eighteenth-century: the Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, quoted in French on the title-page and to open volume three; Molière
and Pope
's Rape of the Lock...
Intertextuality and Influence
Lucy Aikin
LA
's preface denies the absurd notion that absolute gender equality might be feasible and advises women not to attempt to become inferior men. But she asserts, there is not an endowment, or propensity, or...