Elizabeth Thomas

01 January 1675 - 01 January 1731

Standard Name: Thomas, Elizabeth,, 1675 - 1731

Birth Name: Elizabeth Thomas

Pseudonym: Corinna

Pseudonym: Eliza

Pseudonym: A Young Lady

ET (dubbed Corinna by Dryden and writing mostly in the early eighteenth century) was a poet of real stature and an interesting letter-writer. Her few authentic works have been upstaged by the many miscellaneous writings which survive in forms probably significantly changed from the way she left them.

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Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Friends, Associates	Alexander Pope	Pope's relationships with women, particularly women who wrote, tended to be complicated and turbulent. They have been ably studied by scholar Valerie Rumbold . Contrary to rumour, he apparently liked and respected Anne Finch ...
Friends, Associates	John Norris	JN conducted correspondences with a number of learned women: Mary, Lady Chudleigh (who visited him at his home), Damaris, Lady Masham (with whom his relationship ended in difference of opinion), and Elizabeth Thomas , all...
Friends, Associates	Mary Lady Chudleigh	MLC 's circle of friends was largely maintained by correspondence. She discussed literary and philosophical ideas with John Dryden , Mary Astell (Almystrea in Chudleigh's poetry), Elizabeth Thomas , and other women who are...
Friends, Associates	John Dryden	Of these female disciples, Mary, Lady Chudleigh , and the younger Elizabeth Thomas enjoyed personal friendships with JD . But his career was conspicuous for professional enmities as well as friendships. His feud with Thomas Shadwell
Intertextuality and Influence	Mary Masters	A few of the letters discuss female friendship and feminist opinion, as if seeking to raise the consciousness of the recipient. Some in this category occur at random among other letters. Most treat topics of...
Intertextuality and Influence	Mary Astell	Among those directly influenced by this work were Judith Drake , Elizabeth Thomas , Mary, Lady Chudleigh , and Elizabeth Elstob . Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986. 106 George Berkeley 's use of long passages from this text, unattributed, in...
Intertextuality and Influence	Mary Astell	MA influenced a whole generation of writing women: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Mary Chudleigh , Elizabeth Thomas , Judith Drake , Damaris Masham (although Masham's opinions were markedly different), Elizabeth Elstob , and Jane Barker
Intertextuality and Influence	Henrietta Battier	HB (if it is she) presents herself as a brand-new author: a Bardling! - bursting from her Shell! Battier, Henrietta. The Mousiad. P. Byrne, 1787. prelims Her satire on the sexuality of a male ecclesiastic suggests works of several generations earlier by...
Intertextuality and Influence	May Drummond	Thomas Story said that at the beginning of her preaching career MD had a Turn of Expression . . . very taking to most Hearers, especially the more polite sort of both Sexes, Story, Thomas. The Life of Thomas Story. Isaac Thompson, 1747. 720 and...
Literary responses	Mary Lady Chudleigh	Elizabeth Thomas first wrote to MLC to congratulate her on this poem, then went on to celebrate her in verse. Chudleigh, Mary, Lady. “Introduction”. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh, edited by Margaret J. M. Ezell, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xvii - xxxvi. xxxii
Occupation	John Dryden	By this time Dryden's two careers as writer and dramatist were well launched. The first depended on his ability to please the Stuart court, and the second on his ability to please a theatre audience...
Publishing	Mary Lady Chudleigh	Letters written by MLC appeared posthumously in several compilations put out by Edmund Curll : Whartoniana, 1727, the Poetical Works of Philip, Duke of Wharton , 1731, and Pylades and Corinna, 1731, by...
Textual Features	Mary Lady Chudleigh	MLC 's occasions include the public and private. She opens with an ode on the recent death of the queen's only surviving child , in which the speaker, unconventionally, rejects the consolation duly offered by...
Textual Production	Mary Lady Chudleigh	MLC wrote on 8 October 1710 to thank Sophia for accepting the dedication. Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000. 78 The essays had evidently been written or partly written long before they were published. Seven years before the volume appeared, MLC
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Catharine Trotter	The letters published by Birch reflect an intellect dealing in literary as well as moral debate. To Thomas Burnet of KemnayCT wrote of religious and philosophical matters; he was her link to currents of...

Timeline

1 December 1699

John Pomfret published The Choice, a poem in praise of the good life; among many other poems sharing this title, or that of The Wish, Pomfret's became a long-lived favourite.

Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press, 2001.

58, 60, 67, 79, 86-7

September 1727

Edmund Curll issued (with no publisher mentioned in the colophon but with his name signed to the dedication) Whartoniana in two volumes, often referred to as the work of Philip, Duke of Wharton .

English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.

172

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.

Texts

Curll, Edmund et al. Codrus. E. Curll, 1728.

Thomas, Elizabeth, 1675 - 1731. Miscellany Poems on Several Subjects. Thomas Combes, 1722.

Thomas, Elizabeth, 1675 - 1731, and Richard Gwinnett. Pylades and Corinna. 1731.

Curll, Edmund et al. “The Life of Corinna. Written by Herself”. Pylades and Corinna, 1731, p. iv - lxxx.

Thomas, Elizabeth, 1675 - 1731. The Metamorphosis of the Town. J. Wilford.