| Evidence: | 'Mary Lepel Hervey, although Pope's friend before her marriage,disparaged the poet in her mature correspondence. Attributing his polished style to Lord Bolingbroke's influence, she declared in 1748 that Pope "would certainly never have wrote so elegantly, but that, as he bragged, |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1748 and 31 Dec 1748 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Mary Lepel Hervey |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1699 |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
| Occupation: | unknown |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Alexander Pope |
| Title: | [poetry] |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 9231 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Claudia Thomas | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Alexander Pope and his Eighteenth-Century Women Readers | |
| Place of Publication: | Carbondale and Edwardsville | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 75 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Claudia Thomas, Alexander Pope and his Eighteenth-Century Women Readers (Carbondale and Edwardsville, 1994), p. 75, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9231, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
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