Elizabeth Thomas
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Standard Name: Thomas, Elizabeth,, 1675 - 1731
Birth Name: Elizabeth Thomas
Pseudonym: Corinna
Pseudonym: Eliza
Pseudonym: A Young Lady
Connections
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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 |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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...
Writing climate item
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...
Writing climate item
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.