Alexander Pope

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.

She travelled with her brother Alexander , heading for his post on St Kitts; she may have intended to live with him there (having no male relations left at home since her father's death)...

CR demonstrates the widest possible reading: from Homer , Virgil and Horace (all revered) and Juvenal and Persius (used to prove that not all classical authors are admirable) through the heroic romances like those of...

One interesting feature is the inclusion of nine poems by other authors: the canonical Prior , Swift , and Pope , the lesser-known men John Scott , William Broome , and Nathaniel Cotton , and...

The poems appear in chronological order, written over the years since 1785, with a bumper year in 1789. EB writes in various modes, using on the whole conventional and old-fashioned style and sentiment in each...

The nobility of the skin means a class system based on race as others are based on birth or money. Nooth's translation has no preliminary pages, no address by translator to reader. Grégoire cites his...

Her courtship letters, says Rumbold, are insecure, unhappy, and demanding. She later sometimes discussed books with her husband: she admired Richardson 's Pamela for its power over the emotions and also its power to...

Memento Mori has a frontispiece depicting Lady Gethin 's happy death. In her dedicatory epistle, FLN says that Gethin was not only my Only One, but in all Particulars an Extraordinary One. The body...

Along with the sentimental and misunderstanding-prone lovers and the ridiculous esprit circle (which might so easily be taken to represent the Bluestockings), The Witlings features a women's working environment: a milliner's shop where seamstresses make...

EAP says she was captivated by the chivalrous and romantic spirit which breathes from every page of . . . history. She uses couplets, unadorned and yet Popeian . The long scholarly footnotes...

Overall, ML 's poetic forms are those current in her day. Her model was Pope , whom she admired as an artist and identified with as having, like herself, physical disabilities to contend with. But...

This novel provides a satirical portrait of high society in early eighteenth-century England. It centres on Henrietta, Countess of Marchmont, an upper-class orphan enduring a loveless marriage and imperilled by her first visit to...

The Compleat Housewife, a comic ghost story, brings together a Southern American belle (who has married an English baronet) with his ancestress Lady Deborah Corbryan The story makes use of recipes drawn, says CG

She consistently takes a challenging stance in face of authority. Ironically (in view of Johnson's championing of women writers and Burns's snobbish attitude about herself) she uses Samuel Johnson as a symbol of the tyrant-critic...