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, 1778, 2 vols.
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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
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 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, 1995.
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She was entering a debate previously carried on among such...
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, 1986.
225
This work was in the past sometimes attributed to William Wotton
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Timeline
1711: The third Earl of Shaftesbury published a...
Writing climate item
1711
The third Earl of Shaftesbury
published a work of philosophy, or of aesthetic, moral, and cultural criticism: Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: a beautiful book with allegorical illustrations.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
1725: Francis Hutcheson published anonymously,...
Writing climate item
1725
Francis Hutcheson
published anonymously, in two separate forms, An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, in two treatises, one on aesthetics (beauty, order, harmony, design) and one...