Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press.
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Textual Features | Eliza Haywood | Spedding rejects the dubious works: Vanelia; or, The Amours of the Great (a musical entertainment staged and printed in 1732) which mocks the Prince of Wales
whom EH
had flattered; and Mr. Taste. The Poetical... |
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. 200 Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen. 99 |
Reception | Eliza Haywood | Pope
's Dunciad featured EH
as a lewd sex-object being offered as prize in a contest among the (male) dunces or versifiers. Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen. 111 |
Publishing | Héloïse | Hughes's first edition, 1713, was already equipped with a prefatory account of the lives of its protagonists, which weds their texts to the fictionalised tradition about them. It has in turn been edited by James E. Wellington |
Fictionalization | Héloïse | Since then she has remained a favourite subject for fiction (generally in her role as mistress rather than writer or churchwoman). Alexander Pope
spread her reputation considerably when he borrowed her voice for his popular... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Herberts | This tale is not continuous, but distributed in sections throughout the book. The romance couples make periodic contact with the Countess Brillante, a woman writer about whom Herbert's attitude is typically protean and hard to... |
Reception | Elizabeth Hervey | It has been until recently a given of literary history that William Beckford
had his half-sister in his sights in his two burlesques on women's novel-writing. The title-page of the first quotes Pope
, thus... |
Textual Production | Margaret Holford | Published by Hookham and Carpenter
, this was a slim volume of 44 pages, with a title-page quotation from Pope
's Windsor Forest, and a handsome illustration of Gresford Lodge near Wrexham in Denbighshire... |
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 | 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/. |
Publishing | Anne Irwin | The Gentleman's Magazine printed AI
's An Epistle to Mr. Pope
. By a Lady. Occasioned by his Characters of Women. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 1736: 745 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Jacson | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Jacson | The title-page quotes Pope
and Staël
. The novel's opening sounds like a tale of mysterious origins, but without the mystery. A quotation from Shakespeare
's Tempest—Prospero telling Miranda the story of her past—introduces... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Anne Jevons | Mary Anne was very close to her father, William Roscoe
, the historian, writer, patron of the arts, abolitionist and reformer. William began his professional career as a barrister, but retired early. Soon afterwards he... |
Education | Jane Johnson | She was without formal education. Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press. 162 Arizpe, Evelyn et al. Reading Lessons from the Eighteenth Century: Mothers, Children and Texts. Pied Piper Publishing. 31 |
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