Morton, Richard Everett. “Review of Frank Felsenstein, English Trader, Indian MaidEighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
13
, No. 1, Oct. 2000, pp. 86-8. 87
John Dyer
Standard Name: Dyer, John
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | These poems relate or embroider on a tale of interracial lovers whose original source is a bare paragraph in Richard Ligon
's History of Barbados, 1657. |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Haywood | At this point in her life EH
entered on literary relationships with Aaron Hill
(who, with some gallant condescension, was a good friend to women writers) and his circle. They included Richard Savage
(who has... |
| Friends, Associates | Martha Fowke | She formed close links with a group of male poets who held opposition political views: James Thomson
, Aaron Hill
(who was corresponding with her by June 1721), Richard Savage
(with whom she was exchanging... |
| Leisure and Society | Martha Fowke | John Dyer
painted her portrait at some time during the 1720s. Gerrard, Christine. Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector 1685-1750. Oxford University Press, 2003. 78 |
| Occupation | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Among writers who received Lady Hertford's patronage were Elizabeth Singer Rowe
, Elizabeth Boyd
, Elizabeth Carter
, Mary Chandler
, Isaac Watts
, Laurence Eusden
(for whom she set topics of occasional poems), James Thomson |
| Textual Production | Martha Fowke | It has recently been suggested among scholars that MF
is the hitherto unidentified author of another and larger group of poems in the Barbados Gazette. Bill Overton
thinks it possible, Phyllis Guskin
thinks it... |
| Travel | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | In 1808 she travelled alone except for a servant, and headed for the health resort of Great Malvern via Evesham and Worcester, thereafter proceeding to Hereford and into Wales. In the Principality she saw... |
Timeline
15 March 1757: John Dyer published his georgic poem about...
Writing climate item
15 March 1757
John Dyer
published his georgic poem about sheep-farming and woollen manufacture, The Fleece. He died the same year, by mid-December.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3 (1757): 402-15
Basker, James G. “’The Next Insurrection’: Johnson, Race, and Rebellion”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
11
, 2000, pp. 37-51. 38-9 and n2
Larsen, Kathryn. “Virtual Textile Workers”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, 19 Apr. 2001.
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.
4: 414 nn7, 8
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