Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Richard Bentley
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Standard Name: Bentley, Richard,, 1708 - 1782
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By June 1753: Thomas Gray's Poems were published by Dodsley,...
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By June 1753
Thomas Gray
's Poems were published by Dodsley
, with designs by Richard Bentley
the younger.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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November 1753: Horace Walpole penned a pornographic poem,...
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November 1753
Horace Walpole
penned a pornographic poem, The Judgment of Solomon, in which two women dispute the ownership not of a baby but a gigantic phallus (with man attached).
Haggerty, George E. “Walpoliana”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 2, 2001, pp. 227-49.
222-4
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Gray, Thomas, and Richard, 1708 - 1782 Bentley. Odes by Mr. Gray. Printed by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill for R. and J. Dodsley.