| Literary responses |
Anne Bradstreet |
This book appeared in a publisher's catalogue of 1657 listing the most marketable books in England. (The list included all the great male names, from Shakespeare
and Donne
to Crashaw
and Vaughan
, but only...
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| Literary responses |
Lady Jane Cavendish |
Thomas Lawrence
, in his elegy, aspires to inherit LJC
's poetic gift, by seizing her discarded mantle (as Elisha in the Bible did the prophet's mantle of Elijah). In view of recent critical debate...
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| politics |
Dorothy Osborne |
Like all her family, DO
was a supporter of the Stuart monarchy. As a young woman under the Commonwealth, visiting to the Isle of Wight, she saved one of her brothers from serious trouble...
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| Author summary |
Susan Du Verger |
SDV
published between 1639 and 1653 two translations of fiction (the first a collection of early novels or romances) and an unusual critique of a work by Margaret Cavendish, then Marchioness of Newcastle
.
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| Publishing |
Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland |
The full title was The Reply of the Most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the Most Excellent King of Great Britaine: Perron had published in 1620 his riposte to a letter...
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| Reception |
Mary Oxlie |
This work listed MO
as one of its Women among the moderns eminent for poetry. Phillips, nephew and pupil of John Milton
, seems quite interested in the existence of women poets. Others in his...
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| Reception |
Brilliana Lady Harley |
After having been long admired for their picture of female heroism in time of need, BLH
's letters are now coming under scrutiny as expressions of domestic Puritan ideology and of the involvement of private...
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| Residence |
Lady Ottoline Morrell |
At this point the child Ottoline Bentinck moved with her immediate family from East Court in Berkshire, a country house without claims to unusual historical or aesthetic interest, to Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire...
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| 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...
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| Textual Features |
Frances Boothby |
FB
uses both prose and blank verse (not especially skilful), with couplets for high points. The stage management can appear clumsy, with a touch of the wilful point-making that distinguishes Margaret Cavendish
's theatre for...
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| Textual Features |
Ann Oakley |
This book covers a great deal of ground. When it turns back from Modern Problems to A Brief History of Methodology its exemplars include Margaret Cavendish
(who also provides one of three opening epigraphs), the...
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| Textual Features |
Madeleine de Scudéry |
This work makes the association between women's agency and their public utterance, which was continued by Margaret Cavendish
in her Female Orations (in Orations of Divers Sorts, Accommodated to Divers Places, 1662).
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| Textual Features |
Lady Jane Cavendish |
A specific crux in criticism of The Concealed Fansyes has been the question of whether Lady Tranquillity is a portrait of Margaret Cavendish
. This question is bound up with that of date: William Cavendish...
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| Textual Features |
Dinah Mulock Craik |
Despite her regular invocation of conventional gender roles, DMC
, like Felicia Hemans
before her, considers alternative views of heroic male effort in poems such as her later The Arctic Exploration: from the Woman's Side...
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| Textual Features |
Germaine Greer |
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