Latter, Mary. Liberty and Interest. James Fletcher.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Latter | The poem is in octosyllabics (or, considering the many feminine endings, in the hudibrastics of Samuel Butler
). After an opening address to the conventionally starving and scruffy nameless Grubstreet Muses!, Latter, Mary. Liberty and Interest. James Fletcher. 1 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Moody | Personal matters mingle with others of public or topical interest, as EM
addresses Joseph Priestley
on the inter-relation of matter and spirit, Marie Antoinette
on her sufferings before her execution, and Dr Thomas Huet
on... |
Textual Production | Catharine Macaulay | CM
's Bath printer, Cruttwell
, was said (by John Wilkes
) to be printing her personal letters to Thomas Wilson
and William Graham
; Wilkes and Wilson meant these to ruin her reputation. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 112 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Forman | CF
addressed to John Wilkes
, as the great asserter of the Rights of Englishmen, Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 8 , No. 1, pp. 28-45. 33 Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 8 , No. 1, pp. 28-45. 28, 30, 32-3 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Forman | CF
again painted a vivid picture of her poverty and ill health in her last surviving letter to John Wilkes
. Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 8 , No. 1, pp. 28-45. 31, 42-3 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Forman | CF
shifted from the Gazetteer (which in a different context she called that execrable Vehicle of scandal and defamation!) Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 8 , No. 1, pp. 28-45. 36 |
Residence | Henrietta Euphemia Tindal | She apparently lived at Prebendal House, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, whence the preface of her first volume was dated in November 1849. Tindal, Henrietta Euphemia. Lines and Leaves. Chapman and Hall. preface The house is an eighteenth-century building once owned by John Wilkes
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Publishing | Maria Barrell | This was Printed for the Author, with a quotation from Prior
on the title-page. Barrell, Maria. Reveries du Coeur. Dodsley, Walter, Owen, and Yeats. prelims |
Publishing | Sarah Fielding | The work was dedicated to Lady Pomfret
. Its 440 subscribers included many prominent people, reflecting the bluestockings' range of influence as well as SF
's local and family connections: Ralph Allen
, Lord Chesterfield |
Author summary | Charlotte Forman | Writing in the later eighteenth century, CF
was a major contributor to the periodical press, with a total that may have reached about 375 of political essays in letter form, averaging something like 1,300 words... |
politics | Catharine Macaulay | CM
had two circles of political friends: that of her brother John, which included members of the Society of the Supporters of the Bill of Rights
, and that of the Real Whigs, who... |
politics | Mary Latter | ML
subscribed enthusiastically to the pro-John Wilkes
, anti-Lord Bute
views of the radical Opposition at the time of George III
's accession. She saw English society as corrupt and decadent, and looked... |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | The Political Register printed a satire, The Marriage of Junius
to Miss Laetitia Liberty: CM
(in the Character of Freedom) and Wilkes
both figure in the wedding procession. Clark, Anna. “The Chevalier d’Eon and Wilkes: Masculinity and Politics in the Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 32 , No. 1, pp. 19-48. 33 |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | Walpole
thought CM
's principles sounder and more securely settled than Burke's, while Burke
(coining the term republican Virago) judged her the ablest among his opponents. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 173 Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 74 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Seymour Montague |
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