William Congreve

This novel was never claimed by either Minifie sister, and has always been attributed to Susannah . Complete misascription is a distinct possibility, since while the title is so like that of the sisters' second...

Biographer Anne Kelley mentions particularly among CT ' other poems her congratulatory To Mr. Congreve , on his Tragedy, The Mourning Bride (which was unfortunately too late to be published with Congreve's play) and a...

The title-page has a couplet from Congreve about the reward of virtue.

ET wrote a somewhat inaccurate account of Dryden 's death and funeral, which was published by Curll in Memoirs of Congreve on 11 August 1729 (dated 1730).

Throughout the 1720 LMWM regularly responded in poetry to events in her social circle. She wrote on an alleged incident of attempted rape; on the deaths of the Duke of Marlborough , William Congreve ...

HC 's comedy A School for Greybeards; or, The Mourning Bride opened at Covent Garden . Its subtitle, confusingly, is the same as the title of William Congreve 's only tragedy, The Mourning Bride, 1697.

It was published the same year. The British Library copy (841 e. 6) bears a contemporary note of MP 's name. The prologue (probably by Congreve , though given anonymously) implies that...

She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone , who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities...

The volume opens with translations from classical authors, and includes two psalms translated into Latin.ET also translated from the sixteenth-century Latin of George Buchanan . One poem, Ariette, was listed as set...