Heather Harper

Standard Name: Harper, Heather

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Elizabeth Boyd
Her title-page uses the pseudonym Eloisa; her letter-writers are Eugenia and Montezella. EB emphasises, however, that she had no help in writing the work; and she published for herself. She intended this as a...
Literary responses Elizabeth Boyd
A recent critic, Heather Harper , judges that Variety is something more than a curiosity. As the only one of Boyd's texts written independently of a patron or political party, in its intricate and deliberative...
Literary responses Elizabeth Boyd
Heather Harper acknowledges that this is a conservative text, in that it lacks the drive of Delarivier Manley , for instance, to lambast the vices of high life. She notes, however, that Boyd celebrates secularised...
Literary responses Elizabeth Boyd
Heather Harper points out the interesting combination in this work of explicitly feminist themes with a firm anchorage in the masculine world of mercantilism and the Excise Crises.
Harper, Heather. Elizabeth Boyd, Grub Street, and patronage: a study in eighteenth century women’s writing. University of Alberta.
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The three striking poems about childbirth...
Literary responses Elizabeth Boyd
Heather Harper notes that the gothic mode permitted articulation of the unhappy experiences of women, namely domestic violence and physical and emotional abuse.
Harper, Heather. Elizabeth Boyd, Grub Street, and patronage: a study in eighteenth century women’s writing. University of Alberta.
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politics Elizabeth Boyd
Critic Heather Harper observes that [p]olitics always figure in Boyd's works, yet her real political sympathies are hard to peg.
Harper, Heather. Elizabeth Boyd, Grub Street, and patronage: a study in eighteenth century women’s writing. University of Alberta.
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Her writings praised, opportunistically, a Jacobite and at least one Hanoverian monarch. By 1739...

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Harper, Heather. Elizabeth Boyd, Grub Street, and patronage: a study in eighteenth century women’s writing. University of Alberta, 2003.