Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Mary Davys
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Standard Name: Davys, Mary
Birth Name: Mary
Married Name: Mary Davys
MD
was one of the first wave of novelists to follow Aphra Behn
during the early eighteenth century. She also wrote plays and poetry, and is known as an Irish writer.
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...
Publishing
Sarah Fielding
She described herself as the Author of David Simple on the title-page of this and of all her subsequent fictional works. She did not put her name on a title-page until her last book. This...
Textual Features
Eva Figes
Though she mentions such writers as Eliza Haywood
and Mary Davys
, she begins her detailed discussion with the 1790s (a time which twenty years on would be regarded as somewhat late in the history...
Textual Features
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
They include a novel in five letters (Indamora to Lindamira), a verse-and-prose romance (The Adventurer), and poems in various pastoral and classical modes—epistles, lyrics, etc. The novel gives a voice to...
Textual Production
Catharine Trotter
Critic Robert Adams Day
ably summarised the virtues of this tale in 1969, well ahead of the explosion of interest in early women's writing. He pointed out the novelty of the middle-class heroine, chaste but...