Joseph Highmore
's painting of her with book and laurel wreath, and John Fayram
's painting of her as a young Minerva in stylish armour with a copy of Plato
, each of them associated...
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Elizabeth Carter
As a youngster of twenty-one (in May 1739), EC
addressed the eminent businessman Edward Cavebreezily, mingling the domestic and the literary.
qtd. in
Chisholm, Kate. “Bluestocking Feminism”. New Rambler, 2003, pp. 60-6.
63
In her mature correspondence with Elizabeth Montagu
both writers discuss their...
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Jane Brereton
JB
dated her inscription to Queen Caroline
of the first poem in a sixteen-page quarto issued by Cave
as by a Lady: Merlin: A Poem . . . To which is added, The Royal...
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Fidelia
Fidelia
made her final identified appearance in the Gentleman's Magazine, with two epistolary poems, Fidelia to Sylvius and Fidelia to Mr Urban.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 551, 555
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Samuel Johnson
It was printed by Edward Cave
and published by Robert Dodsley
.
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Jane Brereton
The Four Last Things in Christian theology are Death, Judgement, Heaven, and Hell. Cave
had initially, untheologically, added Life at the beginning of the list, so JB
's poem is entitled Thoughts on Life, Death...
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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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Jane Collier
The second of these criticisms was a letter in answer to Edward Cave
, who had published in the Gentleman's Magazine the argument of a Swiss professor, Albrecht von Haller
, that Clarissa was wrong...
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Sarah Dixon
SD
's subscription for her book of poems must have been nearly complete when Elizabeth Carter
wrote to Edward Cave
asking for any leftover copies of the proposals.
Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press, 2001.