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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 29–42.
Published: 01 January 2001
...Sarah Prescott The College of William & Mary 2001 Provincial Networks, Dissenting Connections,
and Noble Friends: Elizabeth Singer Rowe
and Female Authorship in Early
Eighteenth-Century England
’Twas...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 46–61.
Published: 01 September 2024
...James Morland In this article, I examine the role of conversations with the dead in the darkened solitude of grief in the poetry of Elizabeth Singer Rowe and Thomas Gray. Close reading reveals how grieving in darkness is often paralleled with a feeling of separation from a light‐filled system...
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 6. John Rysbrack, Nicholas Rowe Monument (1742), marble, Westminster Abbey, London. Courtesy Westminster Abbey.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 110–114.
Published: 01 September 2007
... participates in
the troubling constructions of passive culpability and eroticized suff ering that
infuse the work of their male counterparts.
Marsden concludes with two chapters on the dramas of Nicholas Rowe
and several lesser-known contemporaries, particularly as these plays increas-
ingly mute...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 93–99.
Published: 01 April 2024
... and to wrestle with the immateriality of spirits, angels, and afterlives. This “frankly revisionist history” (8) focuses on a group of once popular, now neglected poets—most notably, Young, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, and Mark Akenside—and argues that their meditations on “futurity” or the afterlife offer unexpected...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 145–149.
Published: 01 September 2014
... culture, he shows, but also in plays by Nicholas Rowe,
John Dennis, Catherine Trotter, and James Thompson. Wilson looks at serious
drama rather than comedy, and focuses his attention on 1688–1745, rather than
the earlier period. Nevertheless, it is still interesting that he draws such differ-
ent...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Figure 6. John Rysbrack, Nicholas Rowe Monument (1742), marble, Westminster Abbey, London. Courtesy Westminster Abbey. ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 19–27.
Published: 01 January 2009
... conservative.
While Staves’s relatively low estimate of Behn and her followers will sur-
prise some readers, her corresponding appreciation of certain turn-of-the-
century writers is likewise challenging. Staves describes Mary Astell, Eliz-
abeth Rowe, and several playwrights as “partisans of virtue...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 142–157.
Published: 01 January 2017
... in the Digital Miscellanies Index 1 4 7
single poet might appear to be works by two or three writers.15 Though
Elizabeth Singer married Thomas Rowe in 1709, she did not consistently
appear in miscellanies as Elizabeth Rowe until the second half of the eigh-
teenth century, with the curious result...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 54–81.
Published: 01 January 2012
... modes: the grand oil paintings of stars by premier artists of the day
that hung at popular public venues such as Vauxhall or the Royal Acad-
emy exhibitions, and small, black-and-white, engraved prints jammed into
tight rows in the windows of London print shops.6 I will begin by survey-
ing both...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 92–114.
Published: 01 April 2009
... of writ-
ing from which Johnstone and his like learned how to turn suffering into
tears. Relying on predecessors such as Thomas Otway, Nicholas Rowe
developed the figure of the vulnerable, persecuted, and suffering woman.17
In the 1714 Jane Shore, in particular, he takes a fairly ordinary person...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 216–220.
Published: 01 January 2011
... that rivaled those
of the literary critics, but doing so in different media. In surveying Shake-
speare’s reception from Rowe’s edition through the Romantic era, the three
authors under review make the case that critics, editors, and other scholars did
not have a critical monopoly on the plays...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2003
... or Congregationalist.
Evident at many of the northeast London academies was the charac-
teristic combination of Dissent with ecumenical pedagogy. From 1678 to
1705, for example, Thomas Rowe, pastor of the Independent congregation
at Girdlers’ Hall in London, ran...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 134–147.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Robert Harley, the
muse of writers as diverse as Daniel Defoe, John Dennis, Ambrose Philips, the
Scriblerians, Nicholas Rowe, and many others.8
The literary history of the last century typically separated the so-called
ages of Dryden and Johnson with a brief period of party writing in which...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 1–32.
Published: 01 September 2015
...
Metropolitan Museum of Art. of the light-fingered gentry, another
row was created in another quarter
to attract the crowd away.”17 Angelo
emphasizes what fun he, John Bannis-
ter...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 136–146.
Published: 01 January 2002
... in., w/ title and 20 verses starting “Ye Sons,” “Sold by S. Okey the Engraver at Mr
Reaks facing Crown Court Butchers Row Temple Bar, Mr Smith Printseller
Cheapside, and Mr John Swan Bookseller opposite Norfolk Street Strand London.
Price 5s”; pub. 31 May 1770...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 2017
... would not be complete without mentioning Nicholas Rowe’s
1709 six-volume edition, based on the fourth folio, or Edmund Malone’s
1790 ten-volume octavo collection. Editions like these established a valu-
ation of Shakespeare as worthy of sustained attention and appreciation on
the page, rather...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 105–108.
Published: 01 April 2014
... of 1748; a series of engravings by Thomas Row-
landson and J. C. Stadler (1792 – 93); rival illustrations by Richard Corbould
and H. Hamilton (1793); and later illustrations by George Cruikshank (1831).
The selection enables readers to compare visual responses to the novel from
three eras. Another...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 127–137.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Lettres persanes (1721, English translation 1722), and Elizabeth Rowe s Lucianic Friendship in Death (1728). Then we reach a headland: The moment of greatest achievement in the his- tory of epistolary fiction in English occurred between 1740 and 1755, when Sam- uel Richardson s three epistolary novels...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 1–6.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of Solitude,” focuses on the poetry of Elizabeth Singer Rowe and Thomas Gray to explore the darkened solitude of grief, where light and vision are eschewed in favor of sound, but where echoes of the past and the silence of failed conversation with the dead ultimately compound grief. While Baird's essay allies...
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