Alexander Pope

The fictitious narrator begins by observing that while some may consider the story of someone of her station devoid of interest, she has been in contact all her life with cultivated ladies of the highest...

The chapter headings quote a range of canonical or contemporary writers, including Shakespeare , Milton , Pope , Thomson , Goldsmith , William Mason , John Langhorne , Burns , Erasmus Darwin , Edward Young

In the essay as printed, she begins by asking whether nature can really have designed the two human sexes so unequally as is generally believed. Even the faults of which women stand accused—following fashion, inventing...

The novel parodies Germaine de Staël 's Corinne (which had appeared in French in 1807, in English in 1808). Chapters are supplied with epigraphs: some standard choices like Pope and Cowper , but also texts...

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...

She notes that poets have lived difficult and unappreciated lives, and that many have been forgotten. Quoting a remark by Pope (that time, which has made Chaucer unintelligible, will one day do the same with...

Each of the seven sermons in this edition has a topic, and an introductory verse quotation: from Young , Milton , Prior , Blair , Thomson , and Pope . MD 's repeated claims to...

Chapters are headed with a lavish array of quotations. Among the better-known authors are Ariosto (in the original), Shakespeare , Drayton , Milton , Pope (on the title-page), Young , Gray , Collins , Johnson

CN refers to several canonical English names (Pope , Reynolds , Garrick , Shakespeare , and Edmund Kean in her first poem), and relates closely to continental women. She praises Germaine de Staël for...

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

Harriet begins by loving the town better than the country. To Emilia, who prefers the country, she writes: Why Child, the very Thoughts of such a Life stupify me. Against her mother's wishes she...

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...

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...

Under a perfunctory pretence of writing about the monarchs Henry VI and Edward IV , with dignifying chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Milton , Thomson , Prior , Gray , Pope , and the poems of...