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.

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Textual Production Emma Parker
The title-page quoted Pope 's dictum that woman's a contradiction still.
Parker, Emma. Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove. B. Crosby.
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Feminist Companion Archive.
The publisher was Crosby (who at this date was holding Jane Austen 's Susan unpublished), and booksellers at Wrexham and Liverpool were mentioned...
Textual Production Judith Cowper Madan
The Family Miscellany, collected and transcribed by JCM 's brother Ashley Cowper , dated 1747 and now British Library MS Add. 28,101, includes plenty of poems by Ashley himself and plenty more ascribed to...
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 Amelia Beauclerc
It is in four volumes, with a title-page quotation from Pope about how a work cannot be faultless.
Textual Production Samuel Johnson
SJ published his anonymous satirical poem London; it was at first ascribed to Pope .
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, Princeton University Press.
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Textual Production George Paston
From Montagu, GP moved on to publish in 1909 a book about Montagu's great antagonist: Mr Pope , His Life and Times.
Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
EC issued her first translation: a scholarly version, with critical comment, of the Examen on Pope 's An Essay on Man which had been written in French by Crousaz .
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
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Textual Production Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Each issue of To the Imitator was priced at sixpence. One appeared through a trade publisher, James Roberts , and one through a mercury, Anne Dodd . Both these were pamphlet-producers who offered...
Textual Production Winifred Peck
WP published a volume of memoirs about her educational experience: A Little Learning, or a Victorian Childhood (of which title the opening phrase comes from Alexander Pope ).
The date comes from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In an unpublished poetic Fragment of an 'Essay on Woman', the teenaged Elizabeth Barrett countered Pope 's An Essay on Man, proclaiming that even in literature woman stands the equal of her Master Man.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Fragment of an ’Essay on Woman’”. Studies in Browning and His Circle, Vol.
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, pp. 11-12.
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Hoag, Eleanor. “Note on ’Fragment of an ‘Essay on Woman’’”. Studies in Browning and His Circle, Vol.
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, pp. 7-9.
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Textual Production Mary Seymour Montague
It is likely though not absolutely certain that the author was really female. Her pseudonym suggests Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (who had died nine years earlier, and whom this poem praises as the only woman...
Textual Production Anne Dacier
Her French version became the basis for the English one by Ozell , Broome , and Oldisworth the next year, which in turn was much used by Pope in his poetic rendering, 1715 (which she...
Textual Production Fanny Fern
She published a number of collections from her columns. The titles of some of these later works, which included Folly as it Flies; Hit at by Fanny Fern (1868—with a title allusion to the arch-satirist...
Textual Production Judith Cowper Madan
Judith Cowper's To Mr Pope —Written in his Works, 1720, composed for Pope's first published collection of his poetry (1717), and transcribed by Ashley Cowper , appeared in print the year after The Flower-Piece...
Textual Production Susanna Centlivre
Pope accused SC of writing an attack on him entitled The Catholick Poet, which was probably written by John Oldmixon .
Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen.
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