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 Eliza Haywood
There was printed Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput, Written by Captain Gulliver;
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
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this was probably not by EH —but Pope (its target) thought it was.
Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen, 1969.
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Textual Production Mary Matilda Betham
Like most of her peers, MMB maintained a lively correspondence. Some of it is reproduced in A House of Letters, edited by Ernest Betham (though he prints more letters to than from her). She...
Textual Production Catherine Hutton
In the same month that she visited London to arrange this publication (her debut as a named author) she also began on her next novel. Yet she wrote of The Miser Married: I have...
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.
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As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...
Textual Production Harriette Wilson
When reprinted in four volumes, the Memoirs had a quotation from Pope on the title-page (Tis from high life, high characters are drawn)
qtd. in
Wilson, Harriette. Memoirs of Harriette Wilson. J. J. Stockdale, 1825, 4 vols.
prelims
and an advertisement signed by Thomas Little (a pseudonym...
Textual Production Clotilde Graves
CG 's progress as a dramatist continued uninterrupted into the new century. The Lovers' Battle, A Heroical Comedy in Rhyme, founded upon Alexander Pope 's Rape of the Lock, was published at both London...
Textual Production Aldous Huxley
Proper Studies (titled from Alexander Pope ), published in 1929, was AH 's first directly didactic, non-satirical novel.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Mary Stockdale
She published it as Miss S., through her father 's firm, and dedicated it to the king . She put out a second edition in 1817, as The Mirror of the Mind, and Other...
Textual Production Elizabeth Bishop
Advising a would-be poet, EB wrote: Read a lot of poetry—all the time—and not 20th-century poetry. Read Campion , Herbert , Pope , Tennyson , Coleridge —anything at all almost that's any good, from the...
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.
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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 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 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...

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