Walker, Lady Mary. Munster Village. Robson, Walter, and Robinson.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Collyer | MC
's letter-writing heroine is a young Londoner who ecstatically discovers and settles in the country. The plot concerns the love between her and the sentimental Lucius Manly, described as a poor Shaftesburean
moralist... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Fielding | The Cry concerns itself with burning issues for women, particularly those of intellectual conformity and of vulnerability to slander. Its authors show off their huge reading both ancient and modern, and coin new words with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Mary Walker | Lady Frances, newly rich, sees herself as holding her fortune in trust for her young nephew and for society as a whole: She considered society is manifestly maintained by a circulation of kindness. Walker, Lady Mary. Munster Village. Robson, Walter, and Robinson. 1: 60 |
Occupation | John Locke | The latter conferred on him a Studentship which could have been a job for life if he had cared to take Holy Orders. He spent some years at the college pursuing his own research and... |
Textual Features | Catharine Macaulay | Her topics here, all relevant to the escalating American demands for independence, are the declining economy, rising prices, and an oppressive burden of taxes. Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press. 19 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | The contents are heterogenous, like those of the first volume (the same letter-books are drawn on again) but more so, with actual letters, poetry, essays, and translation, together with short fictions. The essays-in-letters include (in... |
Textual Production | Mary Astell | She wrote as Mr Wotton; her subtitle calls attention to her work's relation to Lord Shaftesbury
's Letter Concerning Enthusiasm. Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press. 225 This work was in the past sometimes attributed to William Wotton
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