Robert Merry

MR 's daughter grew up to be a writer, and to publish two books under her own name as well as revising and editing work by MR . Hers are the gothic, epistolary Minerva novel...

In 1789 EH , living at Brussels, was said to be the mistress of the poet and radical Robert Merry . The story went that he was thinking of marrying her, but in fact...

Hester Piozzi referred all this as common knowledge when she met EH . Hervey remained a friend of Merry after his marriage and perhaps shared his acquaintance with the Irish patriot Lord Edward Fitzgerald ...

That year HMW was introduced by Dr John Moore to Burns , with whom she then corresponded. She met Samuel Rogers (in November 1787), Hester Lynch Piozzi , and Sir Joshua Reynolds . The year...

Through Topham she became friendly with Frederick Reynolds (who became her lover and wrote of her in his Life and Times, published a few years before her death) and Robert Merry , and through...

In this volume Lines Addressed to the inimitable Author of the Poems under the signature of Della Crusca and others addressed to Alfred (who may have been her fellow-poet and warm admirer Robert Treat Payne, Jr

AD 's art and her gender made her a kind of tourist attraction. She complained of being teazed and tired to death with the number of persons coming to see her work, and making crass...

MR began her poetical correspondence with Robert Merry , who signed himself Leonardo.

HC 's poems to Della Crusca (Robert Merry ), written as Anna Matilda, appeared in Edward Topham 's The World, or Fashionable Advertiser, interspersed with Merry's replies.

Another of its features was the exchange of Della Cruscan verse between Robert Merry and Hannah Cowley , and because of Merry's friendship with Hester Lynch Piozzi , Piozzi's movements were advertised in The World.

It is often said (for instance by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) that Topham's main aim in this venture was to boost her career. The World was known for featuring personal attacks on...

MR , as Laura Maria, published Ainsi va le Monde. A Poem, an item of her poetical correspondence with Robert Merry , which appropriates the effusive Della Cruscan style.

HLP , while living in Florence, contributed poems to and wrote a preface for a Della Cruscan publication: The Florence Miscellany.

She found this story in a recent issue of the American Museum, where it was set in Canada. Her title-page quotes from Spenser 's The Faerie Queene: Fierce Wars and faithful Loves...