Lawrence’s Reviews > Before their time: Six women writers of the eighteenth century > Status Update
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“Five of the women were married, three happily so, though only one was living with her husband when she did her best work.” (ix-x)
— Oct 22, 2021 03:55PM
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Hilarious poem about how classical allusion offers no precedent for a wife who wants to write a nice poem about her husband
— Oct 22, 2021 04:24PM
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Anne Finch left here unpublished poems in a fine manuscript copy presumably intending posthumous publication, which did not occur until 1903… her “Introduction” poem is fascinating from this lens of legacy-building
— Oct 22, 2021 04:03PM
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Their timeline doesn’t include Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets! How interesting! They start with Emmeline
— Oct 22, 2021 04:00PM