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Literary responses | Anne Finch | Barbara McGovern
has disposed (hopefully once and for all) of the mistaken story of Pope
's hostility to AF
. In fact, they shared a literary friendship which Finch found valuable. McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press. 102ff |
Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | The Atalantis was read in several conflicting ways. Pope
used it in his Rape of the Lock to exemplify the brief reading fads of the fashionable female world which was drawn to it because it... |
Literary responses | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Pope
's An Epistle to a Lady. Of the Characters of Women delineated a controlled and submissive female ideal (and again attacked LMWM
). Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon. 351 |
Literary responses | Mary Davys | Whether for The Accomplish'd Rake or for Davys's whole record, this journal (which was associated with Pope
's various literary battles) printed on 15 July 1731 a piece sneering at her for writing scandal and... |
Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | |
Literary responses | Mary Caesar | She was just as insecure about her style and presentation in letters as in her journal, and elicited reassuring praise from Pope
, Prior, Swift
, Lord Orrery
, and Lord Lansdowne
. Rumbold, Valerie. “The Jacobite vision of Mary Caesar”. Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, edited by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, Batsford, pp. 178-98. 181-2 |
Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | Pope
complimented Judith Cowper (later Madan)
in To Erinna on her (still unpublished) lines to him. He praised her for not seeking, like Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, to emulate the sun's brightness, but for... |
Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | The personal attacks in this work provoked backlash. Haywood was either reproved or attacked in her turn by Richard Savage
, Martha Fowke
, and David Mallet
, and their attacks established the convention that... |
Literary responses | Martha Fowke | Critic Jerome McGann
enjoys this poem's lovely antitheses, playful surprises, and delicate eroticism,as well as its subtle and significant revision of the critical ideas of Alexander Pope
. McGann, Jerome. The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style. Clarendon. 44 |
Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | Rumour had it that Pope
was already displeased at EH
's treatment in Caramania of his friend Henrietta Howard
, who was the Prince of Wales's mistress. The enmity begun at this time had long-lasting consequences. |
Literary responses | May Drummond | Thomas Story
said that at the beginning of her preaching career MD
had a Turn of Expression . . . very taking to most Hearers, especially the more polite sort of both Sexes, Story, Thomas. 720 |
Literary responses | Ruth Fainlight | The younger poet Helen Dunmore
, reviewing this book, found RF
's voice capable of being cutting as well as lyrical, particularly when addressing the topics of the apparatus of femininity, and of growing older.A... |
Literary responses | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Pope
published what seems to have been the first salvo in his prolonged literary attack on LMWM
: The Capon's Tale, which accuses her of passing off her lampoons as other people's. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon. 274 |
Literary responses | Jane Wiseman | JW
may perhaps have been one of those lampooned by Alexander Pope
in his Dunciad, though if so his draft reference to her was dropped before the poem was published. Critic Valerie Rumbold
notes... |
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