Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books.
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Textual Production | Frances Sheridan | Sheridan had hired Theophilus Cibber
for the summer season; Cibber, predictably, made trouble, in this case over a production of Addison
's Cato. Frances Chamberlaine's verse was printed in a pamphlet of this year... |
Textual Production | Judith Sargent Murray | The future JSM
wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion. Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books. 95 |
Textual Production | Jane Brereton | Again as a Lady and through William Hinchliffe
, JB
printed An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele
upon the death of Mr. Addison. Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press. 78 English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | SC
complimented Anne Oldfield
's acting in Addison
's Cato, with a poem written in Oldfield's copy of Fontenelle
's Plurality of Worlds. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 149-50 |
Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | SC
's later occasional poems include an epistle to and pastoral elegy on her fellow-playwright Nicholas Rowe
and a twenty-first birthday poem for Addison
's stepson. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 221-6 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Tollet | The volume opens with translations from classical authors, and includes two psalms translated into Latin. Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University. 51 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Boyd | The third and final letter in the series is written by Montezella. It mentions a story which is postponed to a future letter, but includes a poem, Verses extempore, on Commodore Anson
, with a... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Oliver Hobbes | JOH
sometimes discusses her own writing, career, and ambition: One's place in literature is a possession—never a concession. And one knows one's place. I don't wish to be judged—one way or the other—till I am... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Brereton | JB
's true attitude to her own poetic vocation is hard to fathom. In An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele
upon the Death of Mr. Addison she calls herself the meanest of the tuneful... |
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