This follows up and reinforces her Antinomianism Unmasked, but is written ad hominem. She associates with Huntington the Rev. Mr. Ryland, Senior, who must be John Collett Ryland
(1723-92).
De Fleury, Maria. Falsehood Examined at the Bar of Truth. T. Wilkins, 1791.
Her non-religious poems show her a confident, versatile, accomplished writer. She casts a net of allusion widely—Milton
, Gray
, Edward Young
. She imitates Pope
on solitude, writes first of James Hervey
's...
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Jane Johnson
Here JJ
mixed the intellectual or spiritual with the practical: the same page bears a recipe for syllabub and the sentiment I had rather be a favourite of Angels than of men, but I believe...
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Judith Sargent Murray
Judith Stevens (later JSM
) composed her earliest-dated extant writing (published in June 1794 in the Massachusetts Magazine): Reflections in the Manner of Hervey
—Occasioned by the Death of an Infant Sister.
