Manuscript, in a single hand, of a letter from Mason to Horace Walpole, in which Mason writes that he has read Walpole's tragedic play, The Mysterious Mother, several times and has provided a sketch of alterations he believes necessary to improve the ...
Description:
William Mason (1724-1797) was a poet, editor, and gardener. In 1747, his poem "Musaeus, a Monody on the Death of Mr. Pope" was published to acclaim and quickly went through several editions. In 1775, he published the Poems of Mr Gray, a friend who w...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Mason, William, 1725-1797. and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
English drama (Tragedy), Family, Incest, Religion, and Theater
A manuscript in a single hand of an unpublished Gothic novel that centers upon the orphan Margarette De Berry who, after the death of her benefactress Miss Mortimer, grows up at Molesworth Abbey unaware of her parentage. The characters include a villa...
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Eliza Kirkham Mathews (1772-1802), born Eliza Kirkahm Strong in Exeter, Devon was the daughter of a physician George S. Strong (-1796) and his wife Mary. By 1796 she left penniless and alone, the sole survivor of her family. She earned a living by pub...
