Ros Ballaster

Standard Name: Ballaster, Ros
Used Form: Rosalind Ballaster

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Eliza Haywood
Ros Ballaster reprints an inset story from this novella in her Fables of the East. Selected Tales 1662-1785, as The History of the Chistian Eunuch, as an example of the pseudo-oriental.
Ballaster, Ros, editor. Fables of the East, Selected Tales 1662-1785. Oxford University Press, 2005.
101-19
Birth Delarivier Manley
DM was probably born this year in the island of Jersey, if not at sea between there and Guernsey.
This account is from Ros Ballaster in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Lady Piers
By the time Manley came to write New Atalantis, however, she had evidently turned against SLP , who is now generally identified with this text's Zara, married to the less intelligent and less...
Intertextuality and Influence Delarivier Manley
It presents a report on the state of the world, or at least the nation, by the goddess Astrea or Justice, who in classical myth fled to heaven at the end of the Golden Age...
Literary responses Jane Collier
The earliest critical comment on the commonplace-book is that by Michael Londry in the Times Literary Supplement of 5 March 2004. Further useful discussion has been added by Carolyn Woodward , Ros Ballaster, and Christopher Dyer Johnson
Reception Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Alison Winch has recently put forward a lesbian reading of the Turkish baths letter which supposes that Montagu was flirting with the Lady — to whom it is (in the edited version though not necessarily...
Textual Features Aphra Behn
Scholar Ros Ballaster has pointed out the fictional nature of Behn's female narrator. She argues that the narcissistic inscription of this figure into Behn's fiction serves specific political and literary ends, resulting in a meditation...
Textual Production Delarivier Manley
According to a later reprint, DM 's Letters Written by Mrs. Manley, a kind of domestic travel book, were published without her knowledge or assent by J. H., Esq., probably James Hargreaves ...
Textual Production Delarivier Manley
She has been suspected of involvement in the ground-breaking periodical for women, The Female Tatler, which began publication in July 1709; but her connection with it is not proved, and its Whig politics were...

Timeline

8 July 1709-31 March 1710: The thrice-weekly Female Tatler appeared,...

Women writers item

8 July 1709-31 March 1710

The thrice-weekly Female Tatler appeared, an explicitly woman-centred riposte to the condescending or gender-prejudiced element in Richard Steele 's still-new Tatler.
The Female Tatler. Sold by B. Bragge, 1-111.
Prescott, Sarah, and Jane Spencer. “Prattling, tattling and knowing everything: public authority and the female editorial persona in the early essay-periodical”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2000, pp. 43-57.
44, 45 and n7, 48-9
Mandeville, Bernard. “Introduction”. By a Society of Ladies: Essays in The Female Tatler, edited by Maurice Marks Goldsmith, University of Durham; Thoemmes, 1999.

Texts

Spencer, Jane. “Drama”. The History of British Women’s Writing, 1690-1750, edited by Ros Ballaster, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. 145-55.
Ballaster, Ros. “Early Women Writers: Lives and Times. Delarivier Manley (c. 1663-1724)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol.
5
, No. 1, pp. 2-5.
Ballaster, Ros, editor. Fables of the East, Selected Tales 1662-1785. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii.
Bigold, Melanie. “Letters and Learning”. The History of British Women’s Writing 1690-1750, edited by Ros Ballaster, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. 173-86.
Manley, Delarivier. New Atalantis. Editor Ballaster, Ros, Pickering and Chatto, 1991.
Ballaster, Ros. “Review of Delarivier Manley, Selected WorksEighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
40
, No. 3, pp. 512-15.
Ballaster, Ros. Seductive Forms. Women’s Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740. Clarendon Press, 1992.
Manley, Delarivier. The New Atalantis. Editor Ballaster, Ros, Penguin, 1992.
O’Brien, Karen. “Woman’s Place”. The History of British Women’s Writing, 1690-1750, edited by Ros Ballaster, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. 19-39.