Pitcher, Edward W. Woman’s Wit. Edwin Mellen Press.
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Textual Features | Elizabeth Gilding | Edward Pitcher
describes these poems, the last identified from her pen, printed and apparently written soon after childbirth, as gloomy in tone. Pitcher, Edward W. Woman’s Wit. Edwin Mellen Press. 311 |
Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Bentley | 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... |
Textual Features | Anna Seward | The series (completed in 1791) developed from AS
's strictures on John Weston
's contributions to a book entitled Records of the Woodmen of Arden. She compared Dryden
with Pope
to the advantage of... |
Textual Features | Frances Burney | 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... |
Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | Her courtship letters, says Rumbold, are insecure, unhappy, and demanding. Rumbold, Valerie. “The Poetic Career of Judith Cowper: An Exemplary Failure?”. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, edited by Donald C. Mell, University of Delaware Press, pp. 48-66. 62 |
Textual Features | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
says she was captivated by the chivalrous and romantic spirit which breathes from every page of . . . history. Porden, Eleanor Anne. Coeur de Lion. G. and B. Whittaker. 1: xv |
Textual Features | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the... |
Textual Features | Mary Leapor | 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... |
Textual Features | Jane Collier | The Art of Tormenting is often referred to as a novel, but its genre is really that of the spoof instruction manual: the genre of Pope
's The Art of Sinking in Poetry and Swift |
Textual Features | L. E. L. | 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... |
Textual Features | Clotilde Graves | 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 |
Textual Features | Janet Little | 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... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Nooth | 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... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Boyd | EB
offers original, discriminating praise for women's writing: Susanna Centlivre
(her inspiration, she says), Eliza Haywood
(though she regrets her exposure of women's faults), Aphra Behn
, and Delarivier Manley
, whom she calls the... |
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