Rumbold, Valerie. “The Poetic Career of Judith Cowper: An Exemplary Failure?”. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, edited by Donald C. Mell, University of Delaware Press, 1996, pp. 48-66.
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Martin Madan
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Standard Name: Madan, Martin,, 1700 - 1756
Used Form: Lysander
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | Judith Cowper
married Martin Madan
, a captain in the King's Own cavalry, whom she calls in her poems Lysander. He had met her in September, proposed to her and been promptly accepted in October. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933. 77, 86 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | Martin Madan
, husband of JCM
, died. His health had been affected by his active service in the army, and declined steadily during the 1750s. Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933. 82, 83 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | Judith Cowper wrote a poem titled from the date 20 September 1723, in which she confesses that she fell in love at first sight with Lysander (that is Martin Madan
), but laments that he... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Judith Cowper Madan | JCM
, at Brettby (now Bretby) in Derbyshire, addressed to her absent husband
a poem entitled (by Ashley Cowper) merely To the Same, which thanks him for his goodness to her in her... |
| Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | She admits that she has fallen in love at first sight, but does not hope for a happy outcome, since she supposes that Lysander (Martin Madan
) will be compelled to marry someone else... |
| Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | JCM
wrote a poem for the birthday of Lysander, now her husband
, again bearing a date as title (July the First. 1724) and this time expressing the pure joy of love. Cowper, Ashley, editor. The Family Miscellany. 1747, http://British Library MS Add. 28,101. 160 Rumbold, Valerie. “The Poetic Career of Judith Cowper: An Exemplary Failure?”. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, edited by Donald C. Mell, University of Delaware Press, 1996, pp. 48-66. 62 Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press, 1933. 269 |
| Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | In a poem entitled simply To Lysander, JCM
informed her husband
of her return to poetry, after years of neglect, to celebrate the first birthday of their son. Cowper, Ashley, editor. The Family Miscellany. 1747, http://British Library MS Add. 28,101. 161 Fullard, Joyce, editor. British Women Poets, 1660-1800: An Anthology. Whitston Publishing Company, 1990. 153 |
| Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | Five hundred of JCM
's letters survive in manuscript. The correspondence between her and her husband
both before and after marriage (about 350 letters, from 13 October 1723) is held by the Bodleian Library
(MS... |
| Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Throughout the 1720 LMWM
regularly responded in poetry to events in her social circle. She wrote on an alleged incident of attempted rape; on the deaths of the Duke of Marlborough
, William Congreve
... |
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