Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Falconer Madan
Standard Name: Madan, Falconer
Connections
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Health | Judith Cowper Madan | JCM
suffered from depression, and during the early years of her marriage she had several breakdowns. |
Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | Falconer Madan
calls the writing of this poem in parts weak and faulty. Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933. 268 |
Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | Falconer Madan
wrote that this poem had in parts real merit—which for him is high praise. Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933. 265 Rumbold, Valerie. “The Poetic Career of Judith Cowper: An Exemplary Failure?”. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, edited by Donald C. Mell, University of Delaware Press, 1996, pp. 48-66. 65 |
Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | John Duncombe
praised The Progress of Poetry. The Critical reviewer found in it pure description, perspicuity, and an easy flow of verse, but not brilliancy of fancy or orginality of thought. If pure description... |
Literary responses | Judith Cowper Madan | Roger Lonsdale
in 1990 followed Falconer Madan
in supposing that her child-bearing and the influence of John Wesley
and the Methodists
amounted to sufficient explanation for her ceasing to write. Valerie Rumbold
suggested in 1996... |
Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | Several more love-poems survive from 1724-5; JCM
's poems in this genre were considered by Falconer Madan
her best. Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933. 269 |
Timeline
1895: Falconer Madan, librarian of the Bodleian...
Writing climate item
1895
Falconer Madan
, librarian of the Bodleian Library
at Oxford, published two important studies of printing presses.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
164
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
284
Texts
Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933.