Sarah Prescott

ESR enjoyed important friendships from around the age of twenty with Anne Finch, Lady Winchilsea , and Lady Hertford . Finch was twelve years older than ESR , and Hertford twenty-five years younger. They each...

Although Gentleman's Magazine poets in general have attracted attention from Anthony Barker , and Jane Brereton has received overdue critical notice from Sarah Prescott , Fidelia's lack of a historical identity seems to have militated...

In her anniversary poem on her mother's death, Charlotte Brereton , writing as Carolina, seized as consolation the thought (in the Gentleman's Magazine's over-insistent typography): Yet shall thy writings—thy example, be / The...

JB was a strong Whig in politics, though she maintained friendships with ladies of the opposite, Jacobite persuasion. She defended the wearing of luxury clothes on the grounds that it helped to keep people employed...

Of the subjects of her elegies, George Whitefield had become internationally known (he died in New England) while Howel or Howell Harris was a family friend and (like another Welsh Evangelical clergyman she wrote about)...

JB 's true attitude to her own poetic vocation is hard to fathom. In An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the Death of Mr. Addison she calls herself the meanest of the tuneful...

The moral aims of PA 's fiction are clear enough; critic Sarah Prescott , however, suggests that morality may have been less an impulse than a stock in trade. Aubin was also, unmistakably, one...