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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Textual Features Janet Little
She consistently takes a challenging stance in face of authority. Ironically (in view of Johnson's championing of women writers and Burns's snobbish attitude about herself) she uses Samuel Johnson as a symbol of the tyrant-critic...
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 Production Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford
It was in this year that Lord Winchilsea told Lady Hertford how pleased his late wife (the poet Anne Finch ) would have been with her achievement. At about the same period Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Textual Production Jane Brereton
Bibliographer David Foxon assigns this poem to Elizabeth Singer Rowe , whose name was written on to the title-page by a contemporary reader of a copy now at the University of Illinois , Urbana...
Textual Production Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford
Frances Hertford and Elizabeth Singer Rowe had each urged the other to publish her work. After Rowe's death Hertford joined with Isaac Watts in posthumous editing of Rowe for print.
Textual Production Susanna Watts
SW worked hard for three months at translating Tasso 's Jerusalem and Verri 's Roman Nights; she had already done some translation from Tasso in about 1786.
Elizabeth Singer Rowe , too, had translated from Tasso's Jerusalem.
Watts, Susanna. Scrapbook. 11 Feb. 1834.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott, 2004.
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Textual Production Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford
Frances, Countess of Hertford , composed an elegy on her literary mentor: Verses to the Memory of Mrs. Rowe by a Friend.
Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940.
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Textual Production Penelope Aubin
PA 's latest novel, The Life of Charlotta Du Pont. An English Lady; Taken from her own Memoirs, was advertised with her name; it was dedicated to a Mrs Rowe.
The novel is available...
Textual Production Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford
Frances Thynne, later Hertford, began letter-writing at an early age. She was eleven when her grandfather was glad to find her in an hopeful way of being a good scribe,
qtd. in
Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940.
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and twelve when her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford
Her favourite topics—religious devotion, social interaction, and landscape description—are frequently linked. She hopes that contemplating the beauties of nature will lead her thoughts to their Creator, or draws moral lessons from particular natural effects, like...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Brereton
The book opens, like other posthumous collections, with a biographical memoir, in this case by JB 's daughter Charlotte, who reinforces the poet's own positioning of herself as Welsh, female, and modest. Envisaging potential hostility...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Ann Kelty
Her first subject is Princess Charlotte . After that MAK includes Henrietta (Mrs James) Fordyce , whose life had been written by Isabella Kelly in 1823, and many writers (including Lady Jane Grey , Lady Rachel Russell

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