William Cowper

Before their financial difficulties the family were living in Ludgate Street. The business must have done well at one time, since they had a house in Islington (regarded by contemporaries like William Cowper as...

ALB draws on Hannah More , her niece Lucy Aikin , and (anonymously) Joanna Baillie . She is even-handed in that she includes six excerpts from James Fordyce 's Sermons to Young Women, a...

MRM 's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror...

There are fourteen new poems, plus the remarkable dedication, entitled To the Same, a sonnet which sets out from the poet's early admiration for a poem of this title by William Cowper . I...

They treat a range of topics, from mythical and religious subjects, through satiric commentary and praise of beauty, to expressions of erotic desire. The cult of Aphrodite allowed poems to be simultaneously religious and erotic...

An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) explains that the book is written for the young scholar and hopes to demonstrate the connexion between ancient and modern literature (the...

The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon (Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones (Read and you will know). It portrays the widow Mrs...

Critic Jonathan Wordsworth takes On the Dangerous Illness of my Friend Mrs. L. as exemplying SB 's keen awareness of new developments that affect her art, since its personal ruminative style is inspired by William Cowper

Ephemera of all kinds have been bound in: family anecdotes, a letter of William Cowper of 1788, a Hindu Primer (or alphabet), a railway ticket of 1839, women's parliamentary petitions against slavery of 1833 (one...

An expanded edition as Select Poems, 1845, includes To a Shred of Linen, not a lyric but a poem in blank verse which dramatises through different voices the paradoxes inherent in combining the...

EM 's next subject was William Cowper , in On the Banks of the Ouse; or, Life in Olney a Hundred Years Ago, dated 1888, which actually appeared in November 1887. EM had...

The Chawton House Library copy of this novel is digitally available among their Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The title-page (which quotes Cowper ) gives the date of 1823. Again, the generally-made attribution to Alethea Lewis

Thomas mentioned three of her previous books on the title-page along with her pseudonym, as had become her custom. She quotes Cowper on her title-page; contrary to her previous practice, she supplies no citations for...

It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young

The title-page lists booksellers involved in this project at Bradford and Leeds. There was an edition at Philadelphia the same year. The title-page quotes Cowper . An advertisement says this two-volume work had already...