This is apparently a revised and expanded version of the text from early 1721 which Ashley Cowper
copied in 1747 into The Family Miscellany. This first printing adds an extra forty lines, and several...
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Lady Eleanor Butler
LEB
kept the first of her journals to survive, prefaced with lines adapted from Thomas Gray
's Elegy in a Country Churchyard about the short and simple annals of the poor.
Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton. Editor Bell, Eva Mary, Macmillan, 1930.
54
qtd. in
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph, 1971.
68
Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, 1930, p. vii - viii; various pages.
45, 371
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Anne Plumptre
AP
translated and published Letters Written from Various Parts of the Continent, between the Years 1785 and 1794 by Frederick Matthisson
, which included three letters by Thomas Gray
.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 27 (1799): 115
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Emma Caroline Wood
Under her own name ECW
published her final novel, Youth on the Prow (whose title is quoted from Thomas Gray
), again in three volumes.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2682 (1879): 375
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Thomas Hardy
This time the title comes from Thomas Gray
. Sir Leslie Stephen
was responsible for the acceptance of this novel, which is remarkable for its independent-minded, property-owning heroine.
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Alice Meynell
In her introduction AM
faults Gray
's Elegy, which she calls so near to the work of genius as to be most directly, closely, and immediately rebuked by genius.
qtd. in
Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House, 1981.
138
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Anne Mozley
John Wordsworth
later singled out AM
's article on Thomas Gray
(published at a time when eighteenth-century poetry in general was very decidedly out of fashion) as being as sympathetic and fresh as anything which...