Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
38 (1774): 218
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Anthologization | Elizabeth Tollet | |
Anthologization | Mary Jones | An Advertisement in the volume itself is uncharacteristically humble in tone for MJ
. It disclaims ambition and says it was quite accidental, that her thoughts ever rambled into rhyme. It calls her writings the... |
Dedications | Mary Scott | MS
responded to John Duncombe
's Feminead, published twenty years before, with The Female Advocate, dedicated to her friend the poet and hymn-writer Anne Steele
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 38 (1774): 218 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mehetabel Wright | MW
was accompanied to her new home at Louth in Lincolnshire by her sympathetic sister Mary. Her marriage only part-reconciled her to her parents; they thought her penitence insufficient. She said her husband was a... |
Friends, Associates | Mehetabel Wright | Either now or later she met the writer John Duncombe
and painter Joseph Highmore
, as well as the novelist Samuel Richardson
. Knights, Elspeth. “A Licensuous Daughter: Mehetabel Wesley, 1697-1750”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 4 , No. 1, 1997, pp. 15-38. 17, 27 |
Friends, Associates | Frances Brooke | FB
knew Samuel Johnson
well by 1755, before the days of his greatest fame. According to family legend, she and her sister were the ladies whom he teased because they had noticed his omission of... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Carter | EC
associated on terms of warmth and equality with men of letters or culture such as Samuel Johnson
, Samuel Richardson
, Thomas Birch
, Moses Browne
, Richard Savage
, William
and John Duncombe |
Literary responses | Mehetabel Wright | John Duncombe
must have had the Gentleman's Magazine poems in mind when he praised MW
in his Feminiad, 1754. |
Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | Anne Kelley
traces in detail successive judgements passed on Trotter (later Cockburn) by her contemporaries and by the later eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002. 15-45 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's reputation persisted for some time after her death. Mary Scott
praised her highly in The Female Advocate, 1774. John Duncombe
(though her posthumous publication was too late for inclusion in his Feminiad... |
Literary responses | Mary Jones | Catherine Talbot
found Holt Waters and A Letter to Doctor Pitt indelicate and was surprised that Carter
liked MJ
's poetry. Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013. 183 |
Literary responses | Mary Leapor | This volume attracted attention from Samuel Richardson
, Christopher Smart
, and the young William Cowper
, as well as from its chief promoters, John Duncombe
and Susanna Highmore
. Rizzo, Betty. “Molly Leapor: An Anxiety for Influence”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol. 4 , 1991, pp. 313-43. 327-8 |
Literary responses | Mary Leapor | ML
was by no means forgotten after her first discovery. She was praised in John Duncombe
's Feminiadand accorded the largest share of space in Poems by Eminent Ladies.William Cowper
, who... |
Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | John Duncombe
praised The Progress of Poetry. The Critical reviewer found in it pure description, perspicuity, and an easy flow of verse, but not brilliancy of fancy or orginality of thought. If pure description... |
Literary responses | Frances Brooke | Garrick
called FB
's Virginia (before it reached print) a play, which I did not like, & would not act. Garrick, David. Letters. Editors Little, David M. and George M. Kahrl, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963, 3 vols. 461 A footnote in his correspondence says it was published in Dublin in 1754, but... |
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