Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press.
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Occupation | Edmund Curll | He may have been the last person to stand in the pillory for crimes connected with literature. Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press. 4 |
Occupation | Jonathan Swift | In the late seventeenth century Swift worked for Sir William Temple
(husband of the letter-writer Dorothy Osborne
), became an ordained clergyman, and embarked on a career of political pamphleteering. He took on his first... |
Occupation | Mary Astell | During the 1690s, long before her involvement with a charity school for poor girls, MA
apparently hoped to found a community of serious-minded, self-educating, middle-class, single women, of the kind she recommends in A Serious... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Delaval | The massive, handsome, handwritten volume of her writing now in the Bodleian Library
(MS Rawl. D 78) is evidently a fair copy she compiled years later (as an occupation, she said, for the self-mortifying... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Anne Finch | The publisher was John Barber
. The book appeared that year (a time of hope for Jacobites, with Queen Anne
ill and the succession in doubt) with different title-pages and various imprints. Eicke, Leigh. “’You that have borne the cause of Kings’: Anne Finch’s Jacobite Writing”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Milwaukee, WI. Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. 274-5 |
Literary Setting | Hélène Gingold | The protagonist, Harold Steyneville, lives during Queen Anne
's reign. Though according to HG
he is an unextraordinary man, Athenæum. J. Lection. 3015 (1885): 173 |
Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | A series of various keys attached to later editions fed curiosity about the originals of DM
's portraits, without actually giving very much away. Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii. xv |
Literary responses | Mary Caesar | Valerie Rumbold
noted the allusions and double meanings with which MC
offered the pleasures of complicity and solidarity to imagined readers (even though it seems likely that her husband was the only person to read... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Queen Elizabeth I | The immense and long-lasting interest aroused by Elizabeth is not, of course, primarily due to her writings, any more than were the adulation paid her during her lifetime, the cult of Gloriana, the Virgin Queen... |
Health | Samuel Johnson | Queen Anne
performed the operation of touching for the King's Evil (scrofula) on her most famous patient, the two-and-a-half-year-old SJ
. Johnson, Samuel. Diaries, Prayers, and Annals. Editors McAdam, Edward Lippincott et al., Yale University Press and Oxford University Press. 8-9 |
Health | Mary Lamb | Another followed an upsetting review of Charles's Specimens in the Quarterly in February 1812, another on her completing her own On Needle-Work in December 1814-February 1815, and another, unusually, only six months later. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 265-6, 276-83 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Delaval | The moving spirits in this plot were ED
's cousin Lady Essex Griffin (formerly Howard)
and the latter's husband, Edward, Lord Griffin
, both of whom were her good friends as well as her relations... |
Friends, Associates | Alexander Pope | The group comprised both authors and patrons. Other members were Dr John Arbuthnot
, Thomas Parnell
, and Lords Oxford
and Bolingbroke
. The writers among the club sent doggerel invitations to their meetings to... |
Friends, Associates | Delarivier Manley | The early years of Queen Anne
's reign found DM
bitterly divided by politics from most of the women she had written and collaborated with: Centlivre
, Pix
and Trotter
, as well as Fyge. Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii. xiii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Wesley | He reacted badly to SW
's implicit declaration of Jacobitism in late 1701 or soon afterwards. When she resisted what she saw as an oppressive move to deprive me of my little liberty of conscience... |
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