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Lavoie, Collecting Women: Poetry and

Lives, 1700–1780 (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2009).
Abrams, M. H., 141 collections, 17, 26, 33, 37, 88, 112; on
Achinstein, Sharon, 51, 89 women, 27, 69, 88
Addison, Joseph, 86, 89, 134, 139–40 Berry, Thomas, 52
Alexander, William, 94 Bertelsen, Lance, 56
Amory, Thomas, 30, 41 Biographica Britannica, 32, 57, 71, 72, 97
Anderson, Robert, 137 biographical collections: and authority, 28, 32;
anthologies: arguments for and against, 14, 25, 75, formation, 15, 31, 33, 36–39, 71–72;
111, 147 n. 45; defining, 17–19, 39, 55, 62, interpretation, 18–19, 26–27, 48; women
67, 90, 93; etymology, 23, 63, 68; writers and, 12–13, 15
formation, 25, 33, 37–38, 51, 63–64, 67, biographical dictionaries: arrangement, 72; generic
72–73, 93–94; interpretation, 72, 76, 88, boundaries, 12, 55, 67, 138; Johnson's
98, 110–12, 116, 148 n. 8. See also Lives of the Poets, 31; paucity of
collections; miscellanies scholarship on, 15; popularity, 56
Appelt, Ursula, 13 Biographical History, 29
Astell, Mary, 24, 51, 86 Biographium Faemineum, 28, 43, 49, 51, 53
Athenian Mercury, The, 40, 42 biography: book trade and, 31; in canon formation,
Athenian Society, 40 12, 18–19, 24–25, 151 n. 61; as genre, 32,
Ault, Norman, 125 48, 138; in literary scholarship, 43, 168 n.
Austin, Frances, 80 77
authority, 12, 25–26, 28, 32, 131 Birch, Thomas, 26, 32, 57, 120, 126
Bloom, Harold, 14–15, 89
book trade: and biography, 31; commercialization,
Backscheider, Paula, 12, 112, 114, 143 n. 6 67, 145 n. 20; copyright, 136–37;
Bailey, Joanna, 49 overstock, 34; recycling of miscellanies,
Baldwin, Richard, 55, 163 n. 26 25, 70; subscription publication, 62
Ballard, George, 32, 33, 48, 57, 65, 66, 67, 72 booksellers, 31, 33–34, 38, 50, 71, 114, 136
Ballaster, Ros, 110 Brown, Laura, 27
Barash, Carol, 87, 100, 125 Buckingham, Duke of, 82, 131
Barber, John, 118 Bulliet, Richard W., 25, 28
Barber, Mary, 60–61, 63, 72, 98 Burden, Samuel, 52
Barker, Jane, 83, 86, 95 Butler, Samuel, 82
Basingfeld, Richard, 123
Bath, Earl of, 110
Bayle, Pierre, 26 Cafarelli, Annette Wheeler, 31
Beauties of Biography, The, 30, 43–44, 53, 149 n. canon formation: and biography, 53, 68–69; and
32 collecting, 18, 140; and Milton, 89; and
Becker, Lucinda, 132 nationalism, 12, 48, 66, 70, 76, 87–88, 90,
Behn, Aphra, 97–115; authorial control, 38; 113, 139; and scholarship, 15–16, 19; and
inclusion in anthologies, 56, 57, 58, 70, women, 12, 14–16, 18, 24, 26, 42, 69–70,
72–73, 116, 153 n. 19; influences on, 86; 129, 137
politics, 99–111, 164 n. 40; Pope and, 24; Canterbury Tales, The, 79
reception, 13, 30, 43, 84, 98, 117; Carter, Elizabeth, 41, 56, 73–74, 153 n. 21
reputation, 29–30, 33, 57–59, 65, 74, 97, Cartright, William, 87
114, 162 n. 4; Works of: The Golden Age, Castle, Terry, 51–52
98, 99–105, 111, 112; Oroonoko, 97, 101– Cavendish, Margaret, 56, 61, 65, 70, 74
2; Poems upon Several Occasions, 38, 99, Centlivre, Susanna, 43, 55, 167 n. 69
107; The Roundheads, 102; Scottish airs, Chalmers, Alexander, 137
105–10; Voyage to the Isle of Love, 38, 99 Chalmers, Hero, 111
Benedict, Barbara: on Aphra Behn, 99, 106–7; on Chappell, William, 107
Poems by Eminent Ladies, 71; on poetic Charles II, 105
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 79, 90, 137
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Lives, 1700–1780 (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2009).
Chudleigh, Mary, 57, 86 Duncombe, John, 40, 59–60, 66, 67, 73, 119
Cibber, Colley, 32, 48, 57, 60, 66, 67, 120, 129 Dunton, John, 40, 41, 42, 45, 49, 52, 151 n. 52
Clarke, Norma, 43, 58
Clery, E. J., 24, 66
Clifford, James, 128 Eagleton, Terry, 62
Clingham, Greg, 12 Eger, Elizabeth, 14, 15, 28, 33, 49, 78, 138
Cockburn, Catherine, 57, 151 n. 49 Egerton, Sarah Fyge, 55
Collection of Poems by Several Hands, 67, 68, 70, Evangelical Magazine, 51
72 Ezell, Margaret, 12, 15, 33, 50, 51, 60, 65, 73, 94
collections: and culture, 11, 31, 56, 63, 65, 66–67,
76, 134–35, 140–42; and curiosity, 15, 26– Female Excellency, or The ladies glory, 47, 133
27, 39, 174 n. 15; and gender, 12, 48, 75; Female Spectator, 55
and organization, 37–39, 48, 55–56, 71–73, Feminiad, 40, 59, 73, 119
140, 147 n. 5; and power, 28, 65; feminist criticism, 12
terminology, 17–19 Ferguson, Moira, 81
Colman, George: career, 55, 110; and collecting Fermor, Arabella, 129–30
women, 11, 48, 87; editorial decisions, 50, Ferry, Anne, 18, 30, 90, 93, 112
98, 101–2, 104, 106–7, 110–12, 120, 131; Fielding, Henry, 108
other writings, 166 n. 58; Poems by Finch, Anne, 116–35; inclusion in anthologies, 57,
Eminent Ladies, 54–75, 120 61, 79, 80; influences on, 86, 129;
Concanen, Matthew, 75 reputation, 32–33, 59, 60; Works of:
Connoisseur, The, 55, 59, 166 n. 58 "Love, Death, and Reputation," 119; The
Cooper, Anthony Ashley, 106 Spleen, 120–21, 130; "The Introduction,"
Cooper, Elizabeth, 57, 137–39 118; "The Preface," 118
Cotterell, Sir Charles, 93 Flecknoe, Richard, 17
Cowley, Abraham: inclusion in The Virgin Muse, Fowler, Alistair, 17
79, 80, 88; influence, 63, 75, 86; verses on
Katherine Philips, 48, 77, 84–87, 93, 125,
159 n. 40 Garth, Samuel, 79
Cowper, Judith, 60, 64, 155 n. 55 gender. See under canon formation; women
Crawford, Robert, 111 General Dictionary, 32, 120, 126
Creech, Robert, 63 Gentleman's Magazine, The, 43, 68
Crouch, Nathaniel, 47, 133 George II, 104, 110
Curll, Edmund, 33–35, 42, 44–45, 49, 83 Gibbons, Thomas, 46–48, 50, 52
Curtius, Ernst, 92 Gildon, Charles, 98, 120
Gladwell, Malcolm, 36–37
Gomille, Monika, 64
Daring, Sir Edward, 93 Gould, Robert, 84
Darwin, Charles, 141 Granger, James, 29
Davidson, Peter, 133 Graves, Robert, 25, 111
Defoe, Daniel, 43 Gray, Thomas, 134
Delany, Mary, 116 Greene, Donald, 31
Dictionnaire Generale, 26 Greenwood, James, 78–96, 156 n. 4
Dodsley, Robert, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 80 Greer, Germaine: on Anne Finch, 124; on Aphra
Doody, Margaret Anne, 24, 58, 117 Behn, 99, 103; on Katherine Philips, 87,
Dowling, William C., 62 93; on literary biography, 138; on Poems
Dryden, John: Absalom and Achitophel, 106; by Eminent Ladies, 66; on Walter Scott,
inclusion in The Virgin Muse, 79, 82, 87; 49; on women writers, 13, 15, 62, 115, 134
influence, 61, 63, 67, 68, 79; on Milton, 89; Grierson, Constantia, 56, 63, 64
on Plutarch, 45; and women writers, 43, Griffin, Dustin, 89
48, 55, 77 Griffiths, Ralph, 70, 74
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Lives, 1700–1780 (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2009).
Grove, Henry, 41 Lives of the Poets (1779–1781), 31, 50–51, 65
Guardian, 128 Locke, John, 94
Guest, Harriet, 32, 66 London Magazine, 68
Gwinnett, Richard, 88

Madan, Judith, 60, 64, 155 n. 55

Hageman, Elizabeth, 80, 84, 95 Mandell, Laura: on anthologies and women, 14,
Hammond, Brean, 34 18, 24, 25, 65–66; on the book trade, 138–
Hansen, Marlene R., 42 39; on misogyny and capitalism, 66, 145 n.
Hardwicke, Earl of, 104, 110, 112 10; on misogyny and the canon, 130, 132;
Harris, Jocelyn, 59 on women's names, 42
Harrison, James, 29 Manley, Delarivière, 55, 167 n. 72
Haywood, Eliza, 55 Markley, Robert, 99
Hertford, Countess of, 46, 126 Marshall, Madeleine Forell, 19, 40, 45, 51
Hinnant, Charles, 124 McCreery, Cindy, 132
Honan, Park, 36 McDowell, Paula, 31
Hunter, J. Paul, 102 McDowell, Robert, 75
McGann, Jerome, 12, 54
McGovern, Barbara, 124, 128–29, 130
Jacob, Giles, 29, 38–39, 138 McLaverty James, 38–39
Jacobitism, 98, 107–10, 166 n. 57 Medoff, Jeslyn, 82, 114, 151 n. 49
James II, 106, 107, 108 Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women, 43, 46–47,
Johnson, Samuel: on Elizabeth Rowe, 41, 50; on 49
Milton, 90; on women, 132–33; and Memoirs of Learned Ladies, 32
women writers, 50–51, 130, 138, 151 n. 56; Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, 30,
Works of: Dictionary of the English 48, 57, 65
Language, 56; Idler, 28; Lives of the Poets, Michael, Ian, 79, 81
31, 50–51, 65 Mikalachki, Jodi, 113
Jones, Mary, 63, 131 Milton, John, 11, 32, 77, 79, 87, 88–91, 94
miscellanies: formation, 15, 25, 33, 67, 70, 148 n.
12; generic boundaries, 12, 14, 17–18, 31,
Killigrew, Anne, 48, 55, 86 39, 48, 55, 62, 112; reception, 31–32, 68.
King, Kathryn, 75, 86 See also anthologies; collections
Kramnick, Jonathan Brody, 34, 54, 68–70, 74, 113 Miscellany of Poems by Several Hands, 120
Kristeva, Julia, 14 Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions, 123
Molesworth, Lord, 29
Monck, Mary, 29, 50, 70, 103, 127–28, 146 n. 27
Lady's Magazine, The, 139 Monmouth, Duke of, 105–9
Lady's Poetical Magazine, 29 Monod, Paul Kléber, 108, 109
LaFontaine, Jean de, 118 Montagu, Elizabeth, 74
Langbaine, Gerard, 84, 167 n. 74 Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 35, 56, 60, 74, 170
Leapor, Mary, 56, 61, 98 n. 29, 172 n. 57
"Life of Mrs. Rowe," 36, 43–47 Monthly Review, 70
Lilley, Kate, 125 Moody, Ellen, 123, 124, 130
Lintot, Bernard, 67 Muses Library, 57, 137–39
Lipking, Joanna, 48, 52, 85, 130
Lipking, Lawrence, 134
Lives and Writings of Our Most Considerable Newcastle, Duke of, 108
Poets, 29 Nicolson, Marjorie, 24
Lives of the Poets (1753), 32, 43, 48, 51, 52, 57, Nine Muses, The, 55, 67, 72
120 Noble, Yvonne, 138
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Lives, 1700–1780 (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2009).
Nonsense of Common-Sense, The, 35 Prior, Matthew, 40, 78, 79, 90, 124
Nussbaum, Felicity, 26 Public Advertiser, The, 54
Pulteney, William, 110

Orinda. See Philips, Katherine

Orrery, Earl of, 46, 61, 84 Quevedo, Francisco de, 103, 127

Pamphlet Against Anthologies, A, 25 Raven, James, 67

Paradise Lost, 88–91 Reddick, Allen, 56
Patey, Douglas Lane, 92 Restoration, 15, 47, 72, 76, 98, 99, 102, 103
Pattison, William, 33–35, 147 n. 45 Reynolds, Myra, 124
Pepys, Samuel, 105 Richardson, Samuel, 60, 62, 153 n. 21
Peters, Marie, 111 Richetti, John J., 43
Philips, Katherine, 77–96; Cowley's verses on, 48; Riding, Laura, 25, 111
epistolary verses, 63; inclusion in Rivers, Isabel, 15, 39
anthologies, 58, 73, 77, 116; as mother, Rochester, Earl of, 30, 79
133; politics, 158 n. 28, 160 n. 65; Roscommon, Earl of, 63, 77, 84, 87
reputation, 33, 77, 114, 158 n. 33; Works Rothenberg, Molly, 99
of: "Against Pleasure," 83; "Country Life," Rowe, Elizabeth Singer, 36–53; reputation, 33, 73,
82; "The Virgin," 80 150 n. 48, 151 n. 61, 152 n. 64; Works of:
Phillips, Edward, 138 Devout Exercises of the Heart, 41, 47;
Philomela, 45, 49 Friendship in Death, 40, 41; The History of
Piers, Sarah, Lady, 55 Joseph, 80; Letters from the Dead to the
Pilkington, Laetitia, 43, 56, 57–60, 64, 70, 73, 74 Living, 47; Letters Moral and Entertaining,
Pix, Mary, 55 41, 47; Miscellaneous Works, 36, 41, 42,
Poems by Eminent Ladies, 54–76; Anne Finch's 45, 46, 47; "On the Death of Mr. Thomas
inclusion in, 120, 126–27; Aphra Behn's Rowe," 44, 47, 52; Poems on Several
inclusion, 97–115; biography and, 16, 33; Occasions, 40, 41
commending women writers, 48; Rowe's Rowe, Nicholas, 117, 124
inclusion, 50 Rowe, Theophilus, 41, 42, 45, 46, 49, 52
Poetical Miscellanies (1709), 117 Rowe, Thomas, 40, 41, 45, 46
Poetical Miscellanies (1713), 117 Royal English Grammar, 92, 94
Poetical Register, The, 38
poetry, 12, 47, 156 n. 72
Pope, Alexander: and Anne Finch, 116–31, 171 Samson Agonistes, 88
nn. 35–36; and Elizabeth Rowe, 44, 46; Schellenberg, Betty, 13, 141
influence, 62, 63, 68; literary biography, Scott, James, 105–9
32; on miscellanies, 34, 38; and women Scott, Sir Walter, 49, 97
writers, 24, 28, 55, 60, 61, 64–65, 74, 126, Serious Proposal to the Ladies, A, 24
131–32; Works of: The Dunciad, 23, 38; Seward, Thomas, 66
"The Dying Christian to his Soul," 46; Shaftesbury, Earl of, 70, 106
Eloisa to Abelard, 44, 45, 65, 150 n. 38; Shakespeare, William, 87
"Epistle to A Lady," 24, 118, 129; Essay Sharpe, William, 50
on Criticism, 30–31, 34; Peri Bathous, 24; Shiells, Robert, 32, 48, 52, 57, 120, 129
The Rape of the Lock, 116, 119, 121–24, Singer, Walter, 40
126, 129, 130 Smyth, Adam, 26, 31, 34, 109
Portnell, Elizabeth, 40 Spectator, 86, 89, 134, 139
Potter, Jeremy, 108 Spencer, Jane, 24, 76, 97, 102
Prescott, Sarah, 42, 43, 44, 150 n. 48 Spender, Dale, 14
Price, Leah, 136–37 Spenser, Edmund, 79, 87, 90, 92, 137
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Lives, 1700–1780 (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2009).
Stapleton, M. L., 38 print, 117, 133, 135, 136, 143 n. 6;
Staves, Susan, 15, 43, 104 representations of, 11, 27, 35, 78, 113–15,
Steele, Richard, 117 136–37, 155 n. 68, 159 n. 49. See also
Stevenson, Jane, 133 under canon formation
Stewart, Susan, 134 Wood, Jeanne, 71
Stone, Lawrence, 104 Works of Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe, The, 47
Stuart, Charles Edward Louis, 107–9, 166 n. 54
Stuart, James Edward, 107
Stukeley, William, 120 Yorke, Philip, 104, 110, 112
Suarez, Michael, 17, 68, 70 Young, Edward, 40, 63
Swann, Marjorie, 27
Swift, Jonathan: inclusion in The Virgin Muse, 79;
influence, 62, 63; and women writers, 55, Zionkowski, Linda, 65
56, 58, 60–61, 72, 117–18, 124; Works of: Zook, Melinda, 104, 110
"Apollo Outwitted," 117, 118, 126; "The
Lady's Dressing Room," 24; "On Poetry, a
Rhapsody," 34

Talbot, Catherine, 73
Tasso, Torquato, 99
Tatler, 94
Thomas, Elizabeth, 43, 88
Thornton, Bonnell: and collecting women, 11, 48,
87; The Connoisseur, 55, 166 n. 58;
editorial decisions, 50, 98, 101–2, 104,
106–7, 111–12, 120, 131; Poems by
Eminent Ladies, 54–75, 120
Todd, Janet, 103, 106, 114, 117
Tom Jones, 108
Tonson, Jacob, 38, 40, 117, 158 n. 21
Trotter, Catharine, 55

Villiers, George, 43
Virgin Muse, The, 77–96
von Maltzahn, Nicholas, 89–90

Wagner-Martin, Linda, 32
Wall, Wendy, 117
Waller, Edmund, 77, 79, 81, 90, 125
Watts, Isaac, 40, 41, 46, 50, 79, 89, 95
Weinbrot, Howard, 26
Wharton, Anne, 79, 80
Wharton, Thomas, 43
Winchilsea, Countess of. See Finch, Anne
Winstanley, William, 138
women: education, 78–83, 94–96, 133; as literary
category, 11, 23–25, 29, 65–66, 69, 132;
and misogyny, 24, 145 n. 10, 168 n. 4; and