Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University.
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Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 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... |
Occupation | William John Courthope | WJC
became Professor of Poetry at Oxford
and was responsible for finishing an important edition of Alexander Pope
which had been begun by Whitwell Elwin
. As an editor he tended to read Pope's later... |
Occupation | John Donne | During the later seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries Donne's writings were largely forgotten or disapproved of. In June 1741 the London Magazine printed a regularised (to modern eyes butchered) version of Goe, and catche a... |
Other Life Event | Elizabeth Thomas | Pope
mercilessly portrayed Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University. 127 |
Other Life Event | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 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... |
politics | Mary Caesar | 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... |
politics | Mary Caesar | 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... |
Publishing | Héloïse | 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 |
Publishing | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | The Dodd version went through several slightly revised editions before and after 16 January 1735, when a Fifth Edition Corrected was advertised in response to Pope
's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot—a poem addressed to... |
Publishing | Judith Cowper Madan | Pattison died of smallpox in July this year, aged about twenty-one. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Fidelia | |
Publishing | Marianne Chambers | Her title-page presents the subscription as a matter of charity by mentioning the death of her father, It also quotes Pope
's self-deprecating apology for writing: I left no calling for this idle trade. Chambers, Marianne. He Deceives Himself. Dilly. title-page |
Publishing | Mary Davys | Alexander Pope
is listed first among non-aristocratic subscribers; others include Soame Jenyns
, Mrs Duncombe (probably mother of the later writer Susanna Duncombe), and |
Publishing | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 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. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press. 265 |
Publishing | Anne Irwin | The Gentleman's Magazine printed AI
's An Epistle to Mr. Pope
. By a Lady. Occasioned by his Characters of Women. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 1736: 745 |
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