Richard Savage

Standard Name: Savage, Richard

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Dedications	Eliza Haywood	EH issued her third singly-published novel this year, The Rash Resolve, dedicated to Lady Rumney or Romney , with 1724 on its title-page and a prefatory poem by Richard Savage . Lady Romney, a...
Family and Intimate relationships	Eliza Haywood	After a possible affair with Richard Savage , EH seems to have begun her twenty-year liaison with William Hatchett , playwright and seemingly quintessential Grub Street hack, Spedding, Patrick. “Eliza Haywood, Writing (and) Pornography in 1742”. Women Writing 1550-1750, edited by Jo Walwood and Paul Salzman, English Program, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, 2001, pp. 237-51. 244 who was probably the father of her second child. Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction and Chronology of Events in Eliza Haywood’s Life”. The Injur’d Husband, or, The Mistaken Resentment; and, Lasselia, or, The Self-Abandon’d, edited by Jerry C. Beasley, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlii. xxxix-xl Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships	Eliza Haywood	EH may have married in Ireland, while she was there in 1715. She says in letters of the late 1720s that her marriage was unfortunate qtd. in Blouch, Christine. “Eliza Haywood and the Romance of Obscurity”. Studies in English Literature, Vol. 31 , 1 June 1991– 2024, pp. 535-52. 538 and brief: her husband died by 1728. He was...
Friends, Associates	Eliza Haywood	At this point in her life EH entered on literary relationships with Aaron Hill (who, with some gallant condescension, was a good friend to women writers) and his circle. They included Richard Savage (who has...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Carter	EC associated on terms of warmth and equality with men of letters or culture such as Samuel Johnson , Samuel Richardson , Thomas Birch , Moses Browne , Richard Savage , William and John Duncombe
Friends, Associates	Martha Fowke	She formed close links with a group of male poets who held opposition political views: James Thomson , Aaron Hill (who was corresponding with her by June 1721), Richard Savage (with whom she was exchanging...
Intertextuality and Influence	Frances Jacson	Chapters are headed with a lavish array of quotations. Among the better-known authors are Ariosto (in the original), Shakespeare , Drayton , Milton , Pope (on the title-page), Young , Gray , Collins , Johnson
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Isabella Spence	The title-page quotes Richard Savage on the feelings aroused by being an unguided orphan. The protagonist (on balance) of this story, Matilda Trevanion, is eight when it opens, and the people around her home in...
Intertextuality and Influence	Anne Plumptre	AP quotes Pope on her title-page (about indifference to fame) and Shakespeare , Thomson , Savage , and others as chapter-headings. She sets her novel around the lakes of Killarney in Ireland. Antonia is...
Literary responses	Eliza Haywood	This novel reaped warm praise, not only from Savage (who hailed EH 's rising Name) Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003. 135 but also from an unidentified contemporary, a young lady named Ma. A., author of a novel entitled...
Literary responses	Eliza Haywood	This year EH was praised by James Sterling , but compared to her disadvantage with Martha Fowke by Richard Savage .
Literary responses	May Drummond	A scurrilous poem of 1735, The Female Speaker; or, The Priests in the Wrong, probably by Richard Savage , linked MD 's name (lightly disguised by dashes) with that unruly Female Member the tongue...
Literary responses	Eliza Haywood	The personal attacks in this work provoked backlash. Haywood was either reproved or attacked in her turn by Richard Savage , Martha Fowke , and David Mallet , and their attacks established the convention that...
Literary responses	Martha Fowke	In the same volume Savage salutes MF as a better and more moving poet than Haywood. Christine Gerrard believes that the British Journal review of this volume, which celebrates the large Share of Merit in...
Occupation	Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford	Among writers who received Lady Hertford's patronage were Elizabeth Singer Rowe , Elizabeth Boyd , Elizabeth Carter , Mary Chandler , Isaac Watts , Laurence Eusden (for whom she set topics of occasional poems), James Thomson

Timeline

2 April 1698

Anne (Mason), Countess of Macclesfield , was divorced by Act of Parliament; this was the first civil divorce (not first passed by an ecclesiastical court).

Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

February 1726

Richard Savage published his Miscellaneous Poems and Translations: dedicated to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , it included work by Eliza Haywood , Martha Fowke , and Miranda Hill .

Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.

263-4 and nn68, 69

Prescott, Sarah. Women, Authorship, and Literary Culture, 1690-1740. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

25 June 1737

Richard Savage protested against slavery in his poem Of Public Spirit in Regard to Public Works (an expansion of the previous year's A Poem on the Birth-Day of the Prince of Wales).

Basker, James G. “’The Next Insurrection’: Johnson, Race, and Rebellion”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.

, 2000, pp. 37-51.

Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.

2: 410n207

Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.

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