Said to be a portrait (miniature) of Anne Finch; the portrait resembles in features a miniature of her father … Friends and readers, Here is the second paper that connects to the EC/ASECS meeting this year which I didn’t go to. It is a review-essay which I worked on and off for 2 years or […]
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My review of the Cambridge edition of the works of Anne Finch
Posted in 18th century, 18th century poetry, 21st century, female archetypes, feminism, foremother poet, historical-literary study, women artists, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged feminism, foremother poet, symbolic women, women artists, women's poetry on October 30, 2022| 11 Comments »
Jane Austen and Anne Finch in Manuscript and Manuscript Culture today
Posted in 18th century poetry, Austen criticism, Austen film, female archetypes, feminism, jane austen criticism, jane austen novels, jane austens letters, jane austens novels, women's memoirs, tagged letters, women's life-writing on October 23, 2022| 5 Comments »
Amanda Vickery expatiating on a group of 18th century letters and what they reveal Dear Friends and Readers, Last May I announced that I would be going (once again) to the East Central region meeting of the American 18th century Society and that a proposal for a paper I was going to write over the […]
Studying Manuscripts: from Anne Finch to Jane Austen
Posted in 18th century, 18th century poetry, Austen criticism, conference-paper report, early modern women, female archetypes, feminism, heroines' texts, jane austen criticism, women artists, women's novels, womens lives, tagged foremother poet, letters, symbolic women, women's life-writing on May 25, 2022| 4 Comments »
Dear friends and readers, I’ve not given up or put away my review of the new Cambridge Finch volume altogether. I’ve been reading (for example) Gillian Wright’s Producing Women’s Poery, 1600-1730: Text and Paratext, Manuscript and Print: a study of women’s poetry as the texts appear in the manuscripts across this era. I’m going to […]
A poem as a gift Christmas, 1716 into 1717: Anne Finch to Lady Selena Finch Shirley,”How is it in this chilling time …”
Posted in 18th century, 18th century poetry, female archetypes, feminism, foremother poet, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, landscapes, women's poetry, tagged Anne Finch, foremother poet, letters, symbolic women, women's life-writing, women's poetry on January 5, 2022| Leave a Comment »
A double stock flower (tagetes patula?) Dear friends and readers, After all I have something for Christmas this year: it’s a beautiful poem that Anne Finch wrote and sent to Lady Selena Finch Shirley (1681-1762), a graceful compliment also meant for Lady Selena’s daughter, also called Selena. Finch says looking upon the flower in its […]
Anne Finch’s friendship poetry: those sent to friends & family where the recipient was not a poet herself
Posted in 18th century, 18th century poetry, female archetypes, feminism, foremother poet, reading life, women's art, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged Anne Finch, foremother poet, symbolic women, women's life-writing, women's poetry on December 9, 2021| 3 Comments »
Laura Knight, Two Girls on a Cliff (Cornwall), a foremother artist, again quiet female friendship is not a topic readily found in all eras Eph — What freindship is, Ardelia shew? Ard — Tis to love, as I love you. Eph — This account so short, (tho’ kind) Suites not my enquiring mind. Therefore farther […]
Anne Finch’s friendship poetry: to women friends who were themselves poets, or wrote some poetry
Posted in 18th century, female archetypes, feminism, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, women's memoirs, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged Anne Finch, Catherine Fleming on December 7, 2021| 4 Comments »
Sisters, 1891, Elin Danielson-Gambogi (Finnish), 1861-1919. Quiet female friendship is such a rare topic (except the woman painter be painting discipleship) for fine painting, one must go to novel illustrations and I can’t think of any of sufficient beauty for my purpose From the Circuit of Appollo, a poem by Anne where she names (unfortunately […]
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720): the other sources for her poetry (2)
Posted in 18th century, 18th century poetry, feminism, foremother poet, historical-literary study, landscapes, literary biography, women's art, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged Anne Finch, foremother poet, women's poetry on September 11, 2020| 6 Comments »
A miniature portrait of Anne Finch when still young You, when your body, life shall leave Must drop entire, into the grave; Unheeded, unregarded lie, And all of you together, die; Must hide that fleeting charm, that face in dust, Or to some painted cloth, the slighted Image trust. Whilst my famed works, shall through […]
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720): the major sources for her poetry (1)
Posted in 18th century, 18th century poetry, female archetypes, feminism, foremother poet, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged Anne Finch, feminism, foremother poet, women's poetry on June 30, 2020| 12 Comments »
A page from the Folger Manuscript book of Finch’s poems (written up or in 1704-1709) On my selfe Good Heav’en I thank thee, Since it was design’d I shou’d be fram’d but of the weaker kind, That yet my Soul, is rescu’d from the Love Of all those trifles, which their passions move Pleasures, and […]
On not being comforted by, or able to amuse with, Austen — and turning at last to Anne Finch
Posted in 18th century, Austen criticism, female archetypes, feminism, historical-literary study, jane austen novels, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, tagged pandemic, Virginia Woolf, women artists on March 31, 2020| 2 Comments »
Amanda Price (Jemima Rooper) curled up with Pride and Prejudice (2008 Dan Zeff, Guy Andrews, Lost in Austen) It is a truth generally acknowledged that we are all longing to escape. I escape always to my favorite book Pride and Prejudice. I’ve read it [turning of pages heard] so many times now, the words just […]
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