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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 61–85.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Anna K. Sagal This article argues that Eliza Haywood’s periodical Epistles for the Ladies is an important contribution to the perennially popular eighteenth-century dialogue about female friendships. Contextualizing this work in other seventeenth-and eighteenth-century writings about women...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 79–108.
Published: 01 January 2022
.... Twenty years after Leapor's correction of Pope, Montague puts forward the idea of superior secondariness most prominently by rethinking his well-known depiction of Martha Blount in “Epistle to a Lady” (1735): And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a Contradiction still. Heav'n...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 76–95.
Published: 01 January 2017
... demonstrates that Lady
Mary continued to be a controversial figure, and implies that some read-
ers may have been aware of a poem written by Lady Mary in the voice of
William Yonge’s estranged wife. To date, the first known publication of
“Epistle from Mrs. Y to Her Husband” was 1972.6 The titling...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 95–100.
Published: 01 January 2021
... bearings. One category surprisingly not deployed is that of poems of doubtful attri- bution. Although the attribution scholarship is full and conscientious, many items are difficult to ascribe to Hervey, while others cannot be ascribed to him alone. Poem 12, An Epistle to a Lady, might serve...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2002
...-
cially for representing and apprehending women. By rendering— and ulti-
mately managing— women’s beauty through ekphrasis, in both The Rape
of the Lock and the later satiric verse epistle To a Lady. Of the Characters of
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 January 2016
.... At the age of twenty-seven, Pope graduated from imitating the
fictional epistles of famous female poets and nuns to an epistolary romantic
affair with another highborn beauty.
“Your Guardian Angel”
Pat Rogers notes that Pope, in June 1717, sent Lady Mary Wortley Mon-
tagu, then in Constantinople...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 119–132.
Published: 01 January 2011
... of conversation between minds that truly correspond,
the minds of the letter writer and her addressee.
My text from Haywood is a letter that opens the third book of her
Epistles for the Ladies, published on 31 December 1748 by Thomas Gardner,
the publisher who had also seen her periodical texts...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 19–31.
Published: 01 April 2001
... in such a dark time, Annus Mirabilis and An Epistle to Dr. W—
d——d from a Prude. The first is an anonymous comical essay printed on
very cheap paper that appeared on 21 December (Daily Courant). It was
quickly assigned to Pope (“Mr. P in the London Journal of 5 January...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 83–87.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., including his construction of “The Author” and his use of the categorically un poetical in his poetry. Chapter 1, “Early Poems,” focuses on Swift's Cowleyan odes and epistles of the 1690s and early 1700s. Swift condemns the prevalent exchange culture of panegyrics and refuses to play the game himself...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 28–46.
Published: 01 April 2014
... a legend of Saints;
a book of French called Lucun; another book of French of the Epistles
and Gospels; and a Primmer with clasps of silver gilt, covered with purple
velvet.” This was a considerable legacy (of its kind) from a lady at that time,
when few of her sex were taught to read...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 January 2011
...
Mary Wortley Montagu, Ballaster contrasts notions of “conscienceful lis-
tening.” Adopting a fresh theoretical approach to epistolarity, Ballaster
focuses on Haywood’s fictional correspondence, “Epistles for the Ladies”
(1748 – 49), and Montagu’s unpublished letters to her daughter, Lady Bute...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 9–28.
Published: 01 January 2011
... and
delivering letters in the novels, in which an epistle can be written by more
than one author and dispatched to multiple recipients, are mirrored in his
private correspondence. The letters he exchanged constitute an extraordi-
nary analysis of his novels, a sustained debate on the art of fiction between...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 50–71.
Published: 01 January 2024
... seventy years: five‐and‐a‐half‐year‐old Melesinda Munbee's “Collection of Several Poems” (1749); Eleanor Peart's “Collection of Poems by Several Hands” (1768); Elizabeth Frances Amherst's “The Whims of E. A. afterwards Mrs. Thomas” (1798); and Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury's untitled miscellany (ca. 1815...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 84–107.
Published: 01 January 2016
... painters and women through their mocking equation of painting with
cosmetics, Dryden and Pope use the same association in order to devalue
painting within the context of the contest between the arts specifically. In
his verse epistle “To Sir Godfrey Kneller,” John Dryden writes:
86 Eighteenth...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (2): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2004
... well into the nineteenth century. “If you search for passion,” wrote Lord
Byron, “where is it . . . stronger than in the epistle to Eloisa from Abelard.”1
Not only were the letters widely read and imitated, but the tomb of the
medieval lovers also became popular as a site of pilgrimage for sensitive...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 56–75.
Published: 01 January 2017
... and substitutions were made to the Works, such as the addition of
poems by Aaron Hill, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Elizabeth Singer
Rowe, which kept the volume up-to-date and marketable to each new gen-
eration of readers. These, however, ultimately proved to be minor changes
in content, with The Works...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 133–148.
Published: 01 January 2011
... for the summer, their houses are adorned by the ingenuity of the owners,
but as their income is small, they deny themselves unnecessary expenses. My sister
seems very happy. . . . Lady Bab Montagu concurs with her in all these things and
their convent, for by its regularity it resembles one, is really...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 197–230.
Published: 01 January 2017
... series (1724,
1727, 1733, 1741, and so on). They were enjoyed not just by the tavern audi-
ences with which we might associate them, but also by mixed family groups
around a winter fire. More incongruous to modern readers, they appear
amidst the pastorals, odes, hymns, and epistles...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (3): 23–179.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., 1723, 1725); and The Dunciad (London, 1729). Trumbull’s library was
probably supplemented after his death by his second wife, Lady Judith, with whom Pope
maintained connections.
3. Cicero, De Officiis, 1.7.22 (with minor variation): “We are not born for ourselves
alone, but our country...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of the epic tradition. As Pope explains in his dedicatory epistle to Arabella Fermor, The Rape of the Lock (1714) “was intended only to divert a few young Ladies . . . to laugh not only at their Sex's little unguarded Follies, but at their own.” Drawing a parallel between the descriptions of Belinda's...
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