Elizabeth Singer Rowe

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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.
Transcription by Elizabeth Carter of a poem by Elizabeth Rowe, on paper surrounded by a deep blue background. "To Lady Brooke" reads in part: "your Looks appear / Artless as Virtue undisguised & clear / Bright as your sparkling Wit your lovely Eyes / Like that they please . . . .”

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Publishing Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford
Hertford later included poems of her own composition in her letters to Rowe and to Lord Winchilsea , widower of the poet Anne Finch . She exchanged verse, too, with Frederick, Prince of Wales ...
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...
Reception Maria De Fleury
The later edition was noticed in the Analytical Review, probably by Wollstonecraft , as using tame and prosaic language, a faint imitation of Elizabeth Singer Rowe .
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols.
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Reception Anne Finch
Finch gave a copy of her pindaric Upon the Hurricane to Elizabeth Singer , who responded warmly.
Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013.
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Reception Elizabeth Bury
Among EB 's early readers was a Welshwoman of the next generation who in her turn became posthumously known as a diarist: Sarah Savage , 1664-1752, sister of that Matthew Henry whom both EB and...
Residence Mary Scott
In 1788, after her marriage, MS and her husband moved to Ilminster in Somerset, where they lived in the house formerly occupied by the poet and (in Anna Seward's words) dear fascinating enthusiastic saint...
Textual Features Elizabeth Smith
Smith's preface, which discusses theology and Klopstock's admiration for Elizabeth Singer Rowe , clearly indicates a hope of publishing. The body of the book consists chiefly the Klopstock letters, including those addressed by him to...
Textual Features Susanna Haswell Rowson
The heroine, Meriel Howard (educated in a French convent, aged sixteen at the outset, correspondent of her school-friend Celia Shelburne) is not wholly free from error, yet provides a good model for a daughter, wife...
Textual Features Penelope Aubin
This preface was responsible for floating the persistent rumour of an affinity between the writings of PA and those of Elizabeth Singer Rowe .
Textual Features Susanna Haswell Rowson
Contents include lives of Elizabeth Singer Rowe and of Mary Wollstonecraft (the latter reprinted from the Monthly Visitor of London). Among the poems (some of them specifically attributed to SHR ) are one entitled...
Textual Features Mary Robinson
To demonstrate, as well as arguing for, mental equality, MR learnedly surveys the course of political and literary history. She honours many women writers of the past (Aphra Behn and Susanna Centlivre as well...
Textual Features Mary Barber
To a Lady, who commanded me to send her an Account in Verse, how I succeeded in my Subscription anticipates Elizabeth Hands in satirical sketches of potential readers who scorn her efforts because of their...
Textual Features Samuel Richardson
With her death Clarissa consolidates her position as Christian heroine and something close to a martyr. Her long struggle with the sin of spiritual pride (the ambition to be, as she can perceive that she...
Textual Features Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
EOB writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld for praising Elizabeth Rowe . She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington is the real author of...
Textual Features Clara Reeve
CR demonstrates the widest possible reading: from Homer , Virgil and Horace (all revered) and Juvenal and Persius (used to prove that not all classical authors are admirable) through the heroic romances like those of...

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