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Catherine Sinclair |
In Lady Mary Pierrepoint the title character is a Protestant whose virago widowed mother-in-law (Lady Pierrepont) intends to disinherit her son Sir Cosmo (Mary's husband) and leave her lands to the Roman Catholic Church
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Elizabeth Nihell |
Like Elizabeth Cellier
, Nihell claims authority for women from ancient history. It was probably Eve, she says, not Adam, who delivered the first human babies. The mother of Socrates
was a midwife, and inoculation...
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Clara Reeve |
In her preface a character named Preceptor makes Reeve's didactic purpose clear by enunciating a recipe for forming model citizens: It is a mark of a well-disposed mind, to believe your own country is the...
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Jane Collier |
The commonplace-book throws light on Collier's other extant writings as well. A casual mention of what Sally calls the Turba proves definitively that at least one neologism in The Cry stemmed not from her but...
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Anna Letitia Barbauld |
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Delarivier Manley |
The New Atalantis is crammed with offensive personal attacks on individuals (women as well as men); most though not all of them pertain to the misuse of political or sexual power. Particularly notorious is the...
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Anna Williams |
Besides AW
's own work, the volume included several pieces by Johnson, The Three Warnings by Hester Thrale
, and a poem beginning Friendship, peculiar gift of heaven, a copy of which had been...
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Emma Roberts |
Like other books of travel to the east, as far back as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
's Embassy Letters (composed 1716 -18, unpublished till 1763) this gains immensely by encompassing descriptions of Europe as well...
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Susanna Haswell Rowson |
The title-page quotes Samuel Johnson
asserting that an author has nothing but his own merits to stand or fall on. The Birth of Genius, an irregular ode, offers advice to my son to love...
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Ruth Padel |
The poems here, addressing the circumstances of Darwin
's life, employ a scaffolding of his own words, forcefully shaped, against a background of many other voices (including that of an orangutan in a zoo). They...
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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...
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Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger |
EOB
writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld
for praising Elizabeth Rowe
. She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington
is the real author of...
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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...
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Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre |
An epilogue by Thomas Moore
sounds flippantly critical of Bluestockings (not the historical group of this name, but in the more general sense of intellectual women). A speaker appears wondering much what little knavish sprite...
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Charlotte Forman |
With probably pleasurable irony and in the tradition of Mary Astell
and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, this essay presents its author as a great admirer of the literary productions of the fair sex, which...
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