Mary Champion de Crespigny
published with Cadell and Davies
her Letters of Advice from a Mother to her Son (written more than twenty years earlier), dedicated to the Archbishop of Canterbury (John Moore
).
MH
's wide circle of friends and acquaintances included leading politicians and other socially prominent figures of her day. She seems to have had personal friendships with John Moore
, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his...
Textual Features
Martha Hale
This poem presents childbirth explicitly as a site of female power, an occasion on which men are at a loss. Catherine Moore, wife of John Moore
(the Archbishop of Canterbury to whom MH
had already...
Textual Production
Martha Hale
MH
composed a political poem To His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury: John Moore
, who appears to have been a personal friend.
This may have had something to do with the infamous Zong...