Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh

Name: Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh
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ISBN: 9780195083606

ISBN-10: 0195083601

ISBN-13: 9780195083606

Edition: 1993

Authors: Mary Chudleigh, Margaret J. M. Ezell

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The first edition of the collected poetry and prose of the Restoration feminist, Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710), this volume includes The Ladies Defence as well as her final prose meditations. New biographical and bibliographical information in the Introduction revises the existing accounts of her life and literary career. The volume makes available for the first time the complete range of Chudleigh's literary experiments and calls for a reassessment of the image of thewoman writer of the Restoration. A friend of John Dryden and Mary Astell, Chudleigh experimented with a variety of literary forms, from satire to biblical paraphrase, but always maintained her belief in the importance of…

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List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/16/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.27" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Foreword


Introduction


The Ladies Defence: Or, The Bride-Woman's Counsellor Answer'd


To all Ingenious Ladies


The Preface to the Reader


The Ladies Defence: Or, a Dialogue Between Sir John Brute, Sir William Loveall, Melissa, and a Parson


Poems on Several Occasions


To The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty


Preface


On the Death of his Highness the Duke of Glocester


On the Vanities of this Life


To Almystrea


To Clorissa


To Mr. Dryden, on his excellent Translation of Virgil


Song


To Eugenia


Song: To Lerinda


Song


The Wish


The Elevation


Friendship


The Happy Man


A Dialogue between Alexis and Astrea


To the Ladies


To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty


The Resolution


A Pindarick Ode


Icarus


Song


A Dialogue between Virgil and Maevius


To the Learn'd and Ingenious Dr. Musgrave of Exeter


The Observation


Solitude


On the Death of my Honoured Mother Mrs. Lee


On the Death of my dear Daughter Eliza Maria Chudleigh


The Offering


The Resolve


Song


The Inquiry


The Choice


The Fifteenth Psalm Paraphras'd


One of Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead Paraphras'd


To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty


The Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd


The Preface


The Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd


Essays upon Several Subjects in Prose and Verse


To Her Royal Highness The Princess Sophia


To The Reader


Of Knowledge


Of Pride


Of Humility


Of Life


Of Death


Of Fear


Of Grief


Of Riches


Of Self-Love


Of Justice


Of Anger


Of Calumny


Of Friendship


Of Love


Of Avarice


Of Solitude


Index of First Lines of Poems