Alexander Pope

Pope published what seems to have been the first salvo in his prolonged literary attack on LMWM : The Capon's Tale, which accuses her of passing off her lampoons as other people's.

Her poetry as a whole is conspicuous for its versatility. Her major early influences (Katherine Philips and Abraham Cowley ) were succeeded by Dryden . (She always denied any influence from Pope .) But...

The earliest form of Pope 's Dunciad launched his second attack on LMWM , implying her membership in the class of rapacious whores.

For centuries LMWM has been interpreted and re-interpreted, judged less often as writer than as an exemplar of the unacceptable female. Her fame and/or notoriety flourished during her lifetime, and posthumous publications kept it alive...

Pope attacked LMWM 's husband 's business practices in his Epistle to Lord Bathurst.

Pope 's Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace attacked LMWM and her husband together.

Pope 's Sober Advice from Horace attacked LMWM (under a variety of ingenious but permeable nicknames): to be even suggested in a poem of this pornographic tone was damaging.

Pope 's Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot made a particularly strong and memorable attack on LMWM 's friend Hervey and also herself.

Pope 's An Epistle to a Lady. Of the Characters of Women delineated a controlled and submissive female ideal (and again attacked LMWM ).

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.

At this time LMWM met and established friendships with writers, artists, and people of learning: Pope , Gay , Charles Jervas , and the Venetian philosophe Antonio Conti .

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...

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...

These poems have been linked since first publication with the names of Pope and Gay . But there are many reasons to think that the contributions of these two were far smaller than has been...

These poems were three of the six eclogues (one for each weekday) preserved in the poetry album which Montagu claimed as her own, and printed as Six Town Eclogues in 1747. Monday, the first...