Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
Mary Monck
Standard Name: Monck, Mary
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Louisa Molesworth | As the nephew of the current Viscount Molesworth, he had social standing, with descent from some distinguished Irish politicians of the eighteenth century, and collateral descent from a woman writer (Mary Monck
). During... |
Author summary | Martha Moulsworth | It is hard to believe that MM
—a seventeenth-century woman who left a single, thoughtful, accomplished poem—was not a writer in a larger sense. One or two other poems might plausibly be hers, and she... |
Textual Features | Dorothea Du Bois | After seven pages on grammar, she offers pattern letters: those in verse are in effect an anthology of epistolary poems by women, a patriotically generous selection of Irish writers (Mary Monck
, Mary Barber |
Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | She seems to have circulated her writings among a group of young women including probably Mary Monck
. She copied them in two surviving albums, from one of which pages were then cut out, apparently... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Judith Sargent Murray | She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Priscilla Wakefield | Despite the title, the travel in this sequel or companion to The Juvenile Travellers confines itself to the British Isles, where one of the most pressing topics of local interest is association with writers... |
Timeline
13 June 1716: After the early death of Mary Monck, her...
Women writers item
13 June 1716
After the early death of Mary Monck
, her grieving father, Robert, Viscount Molesworth
, published Marinda: Poems and Translations upon Several Occasions, which contains writing by her and others.
June 1793: An enterprising printer and freemason, John...
Writing climate item
June 1793
An enterprising printer and freemason, John Wharlton Bunney
, put out the first number of The Free-Mason's Magazine, or General and Complete Library.
Snell, Susan. “Enlightenment Females and Freemasonry”. Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, Vol.
4
, No. 1-2, 2013. Texts
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