Original Poems on Several Occasions, the first book by Mary Whateley (later Darwall)
was published with her birth name by Robert Dodsley
.
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press, 1999.
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Textual Production
Sarah Fielding
The Cry, an extraordinary experimental novel written in collaboration between SF
and Jane Collier
, was completed.
Literary historians have differed in attributing The Cry, some to both authors and some to Fielding...
Textual Production
Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford
The final, 6-volume edition of Robert Dodsley
's Collection of Poems by Several Hands appeared, including a poem by FSCH
which was falsely ascribed to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, according to the latter.
Grundy, Isobel. “The Politics of Female Authorship: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Reaction to the Printing of Her Poems”. The Book Collector, Vol.