MC
seems to have become the real friend of several women of higher rank than herself, some of whom moved from the position of her customers to that of her patrons: they included Lady Hertford
Friends, Associates
Catharine Trotter
Her friends and correspondents in later life included various men with intellectual or theological interests (William Warburton
, Thomas Sharp
, Archdeacon of Northumberland, Edmund Law
, John Aikin the elder
), and her...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Griffith
To modern readers EG
's moral-hunting may seem beside the point, but like Elizabeth Montagu
(whom she cites admiringly as having given her courage for her own attempt) and theBowdlers
, she was interpreting...
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
These poems have been linked since first publication with the names of Pope
and Gay
. But there are many reasons to think that the contributions of these two were far smaller than has been...
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Catharine Trotter
Its full title was Remarks upon the Principles and Reasonings of Dr. Rutherforth
's Essay on the Nature and Obligations of Virtue: In Vindication of the contrary Principles and Reasonings, inforced in the Writings of...
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Catharine Trotter
The fuller title was The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn, Theological, Moral, Dramatic, and Poetical. Several of them now first printed. Many of the bluestocking circle subscribed. Two British Library
copies have different versions...
Timeline
By June 1762: Arthur Murphy anonymously published An Enquiry...
Writing climate item
By June 1762
Arthur Murphy
anonymously published An Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Literary Property.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
32 (1672): 295
Texts
Trotter, Catharine, and William Warburton. Remarks upon the Principles and Reasonings of Dr. Rutherforth’s Essay on the Nature and Obligations of Virtue. J. and P. Knapton, 1747.