This is another English Civil War story, in which imaginary characters (a pair of courting lovers, a villain, the noble-hearted Charlotte who is based on EL
's nurse during her childhood, and Joscelyn Heyworth and...
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Judith Cowper Madan
The poem in its later version, headed with a quotation from Virgil
, opens: Unequal, how shall I the search begin, / Or paint with artless hand the awful scene?
Concanen, Matthew, editor. The Flower-Piece. Walthoe, 1731.
Judith Cowper (later Madan)
dated a juvenile poem of compliment, written in Mr Waller
's Poems: six heroic couplets, which her daughter Maria
later transcribed into a notebook.
Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933.
