Elizabeth Singer Rowe

11 September 1674 - 20 February 1737

Standard Name: Rowe, Elizabeth Singer

Birth Name: Elizabeth Singer

Married Name: Elizabeth Rowe

Pseudonym: Philomela

Pseudonym: The Pindarick Lady

Pseudonym: The Pindarical Lady

Pseudonym: The Author of Friendship in Death

ESR wrote witty, topical, satirical poetry during the 1690s, followed later in life by letters, essays, fiction (often epistolary), and a wide range of poetic modes, often though not invariably with a moral or religious emphasis. Her reputation as a moral and devotional writer during her lifetime and for some time afterwards stood extremely high. Current critical debate is establishing the element of proto-feminist or amatory fiction (what Paula Backscheider calls experimental, subversive, and transgressive) in her prose against the didactic-devotional element.

Backscheider, Paula R. Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

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Intertextuality and Influence	Harriet Corp	The preface discusses what makes a religious novel. Corp suspects her work is not a novel because of its lack of a love-plot. But if she must be classed with novel-writers, she will submit with...
Intertextuality and Influence	Charlotte McCarthy	Her Letters Moral and Entertaining seem written on the model of Elizabeth Singer Rowe 's Friendship in Death. One is from a departed Spirit, to his Friend in this World. McCarthy, Charlotte. Justice and Reason. printed for the author, 1767. 202 Those to Clara...
Intertextuality and Influence	Catherine Talbot	Her recent visit to the Duchess of Somerset (formerly Lady Hertford, whose little grandson and great-nephew were the good and naughty boys of the story) had exposed her to the influence of Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Intertextuality and Influence	Anne Steele	AS was said to have begun writing poetry at a very early age. Steele, Anne. The Works of Mrs. Anne Steele. Munroe, Francis and Parker, 1808, 2 vols. prelims Her surviving works show the influence of Elizabeth Singer Rowe , who shares her heightened devotional style in both verse and...
Intertextuality and Influence	Mary Deverell	The additional material keeps up the feminist interest. On Thanksgiving is headed by a quotation from Elizabeth Rowe , and offers examples of thankfulness in female worthies of the Bible, like Deborah, Judith, Esther...
Intertextuality and Influence	Adelaide O'Keeffe	This book might be regarded as a work of ancient Jewish history; it is also highly relevant to experiments in the possible reach of the historical novel back into ancient times. As a biblical paraphrase...
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Elstob	Begun in order to help the work of a female student, this work reiterates more strongly EE 's plea for opening the arena of scholarship to women. For examples of poetic practice she turns to...
Intertextuality and Influence	Sarah Savage	The diary also records SS 's delight in such biographical religious texts as the Lives of Mrs. Bury , Mrs. Rowe , Mrs. Walker . Williams, Sir John Bickerton, and Sarah Savage. Memoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Savage. 4th ed., Holdsworth and Ball, 1829. 30 Women's writing on pious topics was important to her...
Intertextuality and Influence	Anna Letitia Barbauld	ALB 's first hymn presents the world, as God creates and adorns it and pronounces it good, as a female body. Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications, 2016. 49-50 She is also alert to female precedents. Her Verses on Mrs Rowe recall...
Literary responses	Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford	Elizabeth Rowe , in proposing that she should pass this, in manuscript, to Watts, said he would be as proud as if an angel had given him a wreath of immortal amaranthus. qtd. in Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940. 354
Literary responses	Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford	The writing of verse began in Frances Thynne's life almost as early as the writing of letters: it must have been a poem rather than a letter that evoked from Elizabeth Singer Rowe the response:...
Occupation	Elizabeth Tipper	After this period ET 's prospects improved, to include employment, social life, and Honourable Friendship, but then another dark cloud intervened. Tipper, Elizabeth. The Pilgrim’s Viaticum. Printed by J. Wilkins, 1698. 20 At the time of publication she was working hard, since she spent...
Occupation	Edmund Curll	Curll was apprenticed sometime around 1697 to 1699, and set up in business for himself by early 1706. Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007. 12, 22 He became a particularly agile entrepreneur with a nose for new market niches and an...
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
Publishing	Elizabeth Carter	This recently-founded publication, brainchild of Edward Cave , was the first example of the monthly periodical, the first to use the title magazine. EC 's earliest contribution, a riddle on subject of fire, was...

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