Melanie Bigold

Standard Name: Bigold, Melanie

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Literary responses Catharine Trotter
The writings moved by Birch were what prompted admirers to press for an edition. Literary historian Melanie Bigold has called them her most significant contribution to philsophical debate in the period.Richard Price drew attention...
Literary responses Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Melanie Bigold has argued the primary importance of the letter form in ESR 's output, noting that much of her poetry after her early years is embedded in prose structures.
Bigold, Melanie. “Elizabeth Rowe’s Fictional and Familiar Letters: Exemplarity, Enthusiasm, and the Production of Posthumous Meaning”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-14.
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Paula R. Backscheider ...
Textual Features Catharine Trotter
Scholar Melanie Bigold sees these letters as heightened, even romantic fiction, perhaps reflecting actual conversations about ideas, and incorporating poetry interspersed.
Bigold, Melanie. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Trotter, Carter, and Rowe. 26 Feb. 2006.
Textual Features Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Rowe's early letters to Mrs Thynne, full of gossippy entertainment and anecdotal brilliance,
Bigold, Melanie. “Elizabeth Rowe’s Fictional and Familiar Letters: Exemplarity, Enthusiasm, and the Production of Posthumous Meaning”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-14.
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also take pains to create an ideal of female friendship, enforced with quotations from the poetry of Katherine Philips ....
Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
EC 's verse appeared regularly for more than a decade in the Gentleman's Magazine as by Eliza.
The Orlando Project is grateful to Melanie Bigold for advice on its EC material.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Bigold, Melanie. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Trotter, Carter, and Rowe. 26 Feb. 2006.
Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
In 1747 Samuel Richardson printed in the first instalment of his novel Clarissa an Ode to Wisdom which was actually by EC , though he later said he did not at this time know its...
Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
Apart from her prowess in intellectual genres, EC was an indefatigable letter-writer. Catherine Talbot urged her in 1763 to circulate if not to publish her letters. In 1807 the two-volume edition of Hester Mulso Chapone
Textual Production Catharine Trotter
As a child CT was said to have composed extemporary verse.
The Orlando Project is grateful to Melanie Bigold for advice on its CT material.
Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
ESR was writing poetry by the age of twelve; a small album from that year survives.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
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Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang, 1973.
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The Orlando Project is grateful to Melanie Bigold for advice on its ESR material.
Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Jane Turell of Massachusetts (a generation younger than ESR , the daughter of her old admirer Benjamin Colman ) emulated Rowe so single-mindedly that Melanie Bigold feels she became a kind of American Rowe. She...

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Bigold, Melanie. “Collecting, losing, and recollecting womens lives: thoughts towards digitising George Ballards manuscripts and Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great BritainDigital Diversity 2015.
Bigold, Melanie. “Elizabeth Rowe’s Fictional and Familiar Letters: Exemplarity, Enthusiasm, and the Production of Posthumous Meaning”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
29
, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-14.
Bigold, Melanie. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Trotter, Carter, and Rowe.
Bigold, Melanie. “Letters and Learning”. The History of British Women’s Writing 1690-1750, edited by Ros Ballaster, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. 173-86.