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| Textual Features | Vernon Lee | The author chose as her narrator and central subject a Roman coin stamped with the image of the emperor Hadrian
, which is possessed by a series of characters including a gladiator, Renaissance artistGuido Reni |
| Textual Features | Frances Brooke | Mary Singleton, supposed author of this paper, with its trenchant comments on society and politics, is an unmarried woman on the verge of fifty, qtd. in McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983. 14 |
| 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 | Frances Arabella Rowden | An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times. 1829. 1829, iv |
| Textual Features | Sarah Fielding | David Simple predates all fictional work by Samuel Johnson
and all but the earliest works by Henry Fielding
and Samuel Richardson
, which are sometimes mistakenly spoken of as its models. It may be seen... |
| Textual Features | Margaret Forster | The novel opens arrestingly as the child Gwen and her siblings struggle back into their house from a walk in wild and stormy weather. Gwen's later-famous brother is called Gus, not Augustus
, to forestall... |
| Textual Features | Eliza Haywood | This magazine has a second supposed author: the parrot, who is male. This creature, born in Java, has seen the world, since its long life has been spent with fifty-five different families successively. Though not... |
| Textual Features | Susanna Watts | The title-page quotes Pope
, who also (with his Messiah) stands first among the contents. Some pieces are unascribed; others are by Byron
(The Isles of Greece), Jane Taylor
(The Squire's... |
| Textual Production | Frances Sheridan | Sheridan had hired Theophilus Cibber
for the summer season; Cibber, predictably, made trouble, in this case over a production of Addison
's Cato. Frances Chamberlaine's verse was printed in a pamphlet of this year... |
| Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | SC
complimented Anne Oldfield
's acting in Addison
's Cato, with a poem written in Oldfield's copy of Fontenelle
's Plurality of Worlds. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952. 149-50 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele
upon the Death of Mr. Addison, published in February 1720 by a Lady, is attributed to ESR
in a contemporary note on the title-page of a... |
| Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | SC
's later occasional poems include an epistle to and pastoral elegy on her fellow-playwright Nicholas Rowe
and a twenty-first birthday poem for Addison
's stepson. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952. 221-6 |
| Textual Production | Delarivier Manley | Her brief in this paper was again to attack the Whigs. Her first number appeared five days after Addison
's Spectator number 81, which sought to decry and put a stop to Party-Rage in Women. qtd. in McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998. 277 |
| Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
wrote an epilogue (not used on stage) to Joseph Addison
's famous tragedy, Cato. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press, 1993. 180 |
| Textual Production | Lucy Aikin | LA
published The Life of Joseph Addison: the first biography of her subject, which includes the text of a number of previously unpublished letters. Aikin, Lucy. The Life of Joseph Addison. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843, 2 vols. title-page Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. 812 (20 May 1843): 477-9 |
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