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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Maria De Fleury
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.
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...
Textual Production
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.