Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Mary Alcock
Standard Name: Alcock, Mary
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Leisure and Society | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | As a young woman HMB
was capable of attending the opera and whenever there was dancing on stage keeping her eyes shut the whole time, [since] it was so indelicate she could not bear to... |
| Occupation | Anna Miller | The Batheaston Vase was important in several literary careers, notably those of Anna Seward
, Jane Bowdler
, and Mary Alcock
. Other winners, like Jane Johnson
's daughter Barbara
, seem never to have... |
Timeline
1799: The year after Mary Alcock (sister of the...
Women writers item
1799
The year after Mary Alcock
(sister of the playwright Richard Cumberland
) died, one of her nieces published her Poems, to which Elizabeth Carter
and Hannah More
, among others, subscribed.
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