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- Title
Mary Scott, Sarah Froud, and the Steele Literary Circle: A Revealing Annotation to The Female Advocate.
- Authors
Whelan, Timothy
- Abstract
In this essay, Timothy Whelan links Mary Scott, author of the early feminist poem The Female Advocate (1774), to a circle of West Country women writers led by the poet Mary Steele. A copy of The Female Advocate in the Huntington Library once belonged to a member of the Steele circle, Sarah Froud, whose identity has remained hidden and whose annotations have been largely misinterpreted. An examination of the correspondence of Steele and Scott presents a detailed picture of how these women viewed love and marriage in the 1770s and the difficult legacy such views posed for them by the 1790s.
- Subjects
WEST Country (England); WOMEN'S social networks; FEMALE Advocate: A Poem, The (Book); SCOTT, Mary, ca. 1752-1793; STEELE, Mary; FROUD, Sarah; STEELE, Anne; MORE, Hannah, 1745-1833; EIGHTEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Huntington Library Quarterly, 2014, Vol 77, Issue 4, p435
- ISSN
0018-7895
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1525/hlq.2014.77.4.435