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.
Half-length painting of Alexander Pope attributed to Jonathan Richardson, c. 1736. He is sitting and looking at the viewer, with a book in his right hand. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Textual Production Lady Margaret Sackville
In 1944 Charles Richard Cammell described this meeting in a heroic light: Already in Elizabethan times, English poetry and the illustrious house of Sackville were allied; nor has the alliance failed with the passing of...
Textual Production Helen Maria Williams
This volume also included work by Milton , Dryden , Addison , Pope , Carter , and Barbauld .
Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications, 2016.
144
Textual Production Mary Charlton
The novel is in four volumes, with a title-page quotation from Pope about designing only in harmony with Nature, and a frontispiece showing the rescue of a fainting girl.
Charlton, Mary. Phedora. Minerva Press, 1798, 4 vols.
title-page
Like MC 's previous novel...
Textual Production Germaine Greer
The first words of her title are quoted from a passage in Pope 's Dunciad which is, to put it mildly, unfriendly to the notion that a good poet might possibly be of the female...
Textual Production Florence Marryat
FM published At Heart a Rake, a novel whose title comes from a famous pronouncement by Alexander Pope about the secret essence of every woman.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
The second volume followed on 26 October 1725. Both were published at Dublin as well; both apparently circulated in manuscript before publication.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
211-12, 213
Gerrard, Christine. Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector 1685-1750. Oxford University Press, 2003.
88
The work's authorship had been implied on later works by...
Textual Production Judith Sargent Murray
The future JSM wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion.
Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books, 1998.
95
As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...
Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Pope published in the second edition of his Eloisa to Abelard (postdated 1720) a poem addressed to him by ESR , and her elegy on her husband .
Griffith, Reginald Harvey. Alexander Pope: A Bibliography. University of Texas Press, 1922, 2 vols.
1: 84
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press, 1990.
49-51, 518n35
Textual Production Judith Cowper Madan
Abelard to Eloisa, an epistolary reply written in 1720 by Judith Cowper (who by now was Judith Madan) to Pope 's Eloisa to Abelard, was published in William Pattison 's posthumous works.
The...
Textual Production Mrs Martin
Her preface says that she cannot (like one of Pope 's dunces) plead request of friends as an excuse for publishing. She explains that she planned her work in the course of rambling through the...
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 E. M. Forster
EMF published his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, which contrasts genteel English culture with Italian.
The words of the title come from Pope 's An Essay on Criticism, where they...
Textual Production Mary Masters
MM published by subscription her Poems on Several Occasions: the first volume of poems in English by a woman to be issued this way. Her surviving letters show that she put a lot of...
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.
qtd. in
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
xxviii
She herself, however, said it was Joseph Priestley
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
It is not clear whether a first edition was published and read out of existence; in any case, no known copy survives. It may be that the collection's first appearance was the one called the...

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