Alexander Pope

Through Henry CromwellET met (at least once) Cromwell's friend Alexander Pope .

The poems that Judith Cowper wrote as an unmarried young woman suggest that she moved easily both in court and in literary circles. She probably met the poet Alexander Pope in Jervas 's studio. Pope...

Henry Cromwell made a gift to ET of some early letters of Alexander Pope .

Aikin also applied to Benger a phrase first used of the seriously disabled and pain-wracked Alexander Pope , saying the infirmity of her constitution rendered her life a long disease.

MC had poor health. She was handicapped by a crooked spine (not unlike Pope ). She became a devotee of the vegetarian regimes of Dr George Cheyne , and may even have been anorexic.

ES 's governess, Helen Rootham , was a major influence on her intellectual development, since she introduced her to serious poetry, both English and French, making her the heir to two distinct traditions. By the...

A first prologue addresses Pope , and invokes the ghosts of Shakespeare (The Wonder, as the Glory of the Land) and Dryden (Shakespear's Freind) as mentors to EB 's performance in...

Her protagonist, ambiguous and unsympathetic public speaker and political agitator Anna Carrington, stands for the spirit of the modern world . . . creedless, searching, restless, ravenous, egotistical, sick and sorry. Anna's protean nature...

At the outset the sisters are faced with the big question about slavery: What can I do for the cause? They reply firmly that everybody can do something: boycott sugar and educate others. They...

Personal matters mingle with others of public or topical interest, as EM addresses Joseph Priestley on the inter-relation of matter and spirit, Marie Antoinette on her sufferings before her execution, and Dr Thomas Huet on...

The story follows its hero's unsurprising metamorphosis: he begins as the socially negligible James Treton, an orphan, assistant in an accoucheurs' and surgeon-apothecaries' practice, and ends as Arthur, Duke of Avon. It opens with nicely...

She dedicates A Ballad of Forgotten Tunes to Vernon Lee , and addresses her by name in its closing stanza. She parodies the style of Pope in Celia's Homecoming, written for her sister Mabel

This novel has two sections, Dream-Life and The Awakening, with an Intermezzo between the two: love is not part of the dream, but of the awakening to reality. The title-page quotation from La Fontaine

These stories tend to stress the importance of strong moral instruction and guidance for children. The title objects in Grandmamma's Pockets deliver a book-length lesson in appropriate behaviour and domestic economy. Grandmamma, who succeeds...

AS said she was attempting to combine the passion of Pope 's Eloisa with the tenderness of Prior 's Emma, while moderating the over-enthusiasm in love of both these heroines. In the first epistle her...