Elizabeth Singer (later ESR
) was courted by several men. Whether or not she was seriously pursued by either Dunton
or Prior
(both worldly figures), her suitors included at least two dissenting clergymen. The Rev....
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Elizabeth Singer Rowe
The same month Benjamin Colman
's tribute was published on the front page of the Boston Weekly News-Letter.
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang, 1973.
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In March, the Gentleman's Magazine had already printed a notice of Rowe's death and a...
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Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Jane Turell
of Massachusetts (a generation younger than ESR
, the daughter of her old admirer Benjamin Colman
) emulated Rowe so single-mindedly that Melanie Bigold
feels she became a kind of American Rowe. She...