Maureen E. Mulvihill
calls Female Poems the first volume of English poetry in which a female voice takes a purely secular viewpoint.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Sly Stuart Duchess: The Many Masks of Mary Villiers (’Ephelia’)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), 1 June 2002– 2024, pp. 1-5.
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Though the much earlier Isabella Whitney
has a better claim to this...
Reception
Ephelia
In the late nineteenth century H. B. Wheatley
suggested in Samuel Halkett
and John Laing
's A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain that Ephelia was somebody called Joan Phillips. This...
Ephelia,. Female Poems on Several Occasions. James Courtney, 1679.
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(whom it credits with greatness of power, spirit, nobility, generosity, beauty, constancy, and Scorn of Fortune)
Ephelia,. Female Poems on Several Occasions. James Courtney, 1679.
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Textual Production
Mary Tighe
MT
's Collected Poems and Journals appeared in 2005, edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin
. Maureen E. Mulvihill
's review of this edition praised its scholarship, timeliness, high critical ranking of its subject, and expansion...
Textual Production
Frances Burney
The most substantial parts of FB
's immense hoard of personal and family papers are in the New York Public Library
(Berg Collection) and in the British Library
. Their division (sometimes two torn and...
Textual Production
Anne Killigrew
AK
's mythological paintings included the only ambitious canvas known to survive: Venus Attired by the Graces, now in Falmouth Art Gallery in Cornwall and called by Maureen E. Mulvihill
the most achieved of...
Textual Production
Mary Leadbeater
Leadbeater's editor, Maureen E. Mulvihill
, links her move into authorship with the failure of her dream of working personally on schemes of reform in revolutionary France. Her political aims carried over from the...
Textual Production
Mary Leadbeater
As stated above, Maureen E. Mulvihill
reproduces (for the first time) the only extant likeness of ML
, a head and shoulders silhouette in which she wears her Quaker cap, in the textbase Irish Women...
Textual Production
Ephelia
Her title is A Funerall Elegie on Sr Thomas Isham Barronet The manuscript of the 49-line elegy is at Nottingham University
, in a collection of papers of the Dukes of Portland. Its high-quality, watermarked...
Textual Production
Eugenia
Scholar Maureen E. Mulvihill
, on her website, reproduces the elaborate title-page of Edward Reynolds
's 1642 address to Queen Henrietta Maria
by this name, Eugenia's Teares for great Brittaynes Distractions, and suggests a...
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Texts
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Sly Stuart Duchess: The Many Masks of Mary Villiers (’Ephelia’)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), pp. 1-5.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “The Eureka! Piece in the Ephelia Puzzle: Book Ornaments in Attribution Research and a New Location for Rahir Fleuron 203 (Elzevier, 1896)”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, Vol.
12
, No. 3, pp. 23-34.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “The New Candidate for Pseudonymous ’Ephelia’: Mary (Stuart née Villiers), Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (1622-1685)”. Women’s Writing, Vol.