Elizabeth Tickell's father had committed suicide after a financially disastrous second marriage. She had literary connections, being the great-grand-daughter of the poet Thomas Tickell
and the niece of Elizabeth Liddell Sheridan
.
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, 2000, p. ix - lii.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Strutt
The title-page quotes Shakespeare
: later on Pope
, Thomson
, Thomas Tickell
, Charles Cotton
, and others are quoted too. Characters include a seducer and promiser-breaker who dies in a duel. The central...
Textual Production
Susanna Blamire
Maxwell
had been an admirer of SB
's writing since his early youth: with a father serving in India, he used her poem The Nabob to feed his imaginings of how it would be when...
Timeline
18 June 1714: Addison, helped by Eustace Budgell and Thomas...
Writing climate item
18 June 1714
Addison
, helped by Eustace Budgell
and Thomas Tickell
, began publishing a continuation of the Spectator.
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965, 5 vols.
