Title page of John Duncombe's The Feminead (1754), 2nd edition (1757)(Google Books)
Author
John Duncombe
Language
English
Publisher
London: M. Cooper (1st edition); R. & J. Dodsley (2nd edition)
Publication date
1754; rpt. 1757
Publication place
Britain
John Duncombe (1729-1786) published his "canon-forming"[1] celebration of British women writers as The Feminiad in 1754, though the title was revised as The Feminead in the second, 1757 edition.
^Landry, Donna. “The traffic in women poets.” The Eighteenth Century, vol. 32, no. 2, 1991, pp. 180–92. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41467517. Accessed 24 Jun. 2022.
The Feminiad in 1754, though the title was revised as TheFeminead in the second, 1757 edition. The piece is an essay in verse, a form popular in the...
occasioned by reading Mr. Duncombe's Feminead. London: Joseph Johnson. p. 7. Retrieved 2 March 2015. Ackroyd, Peter (1999). The Life of Thomas More. pp. 146–47...
occasioned by reading Mr. Duncombe's Feminead. London: Joseph Johnson. p. 7. Retrieved 2 March 2015. Ackroyd, Peter (1999). The Life of Thomas More. pp. 146–47...
Mary Scott's The Female Advocate; a poem occasioned by reading Mr. Duncombe's Feminead (1775) is both a celebration of women's literary achievements,...
the pen name "Aristippus", Epistles to the Great (see also The Call of Aristippus 1758) John Duncombe, TheFeminead; or, Female Genius (see also The Feminead...
Internet Archive) Collective 18th-century biographies of literary women TheFeminead Specimens of British Poetesses Women's writing (literary category) Irish...
contributed the story of Fidelio and Honoria to The Adventurer; was eulogised by John Duncombe as Eugenia in his Feminead, 1754; and, after a protracted courtship...
Mr. Duncombe's Feminead. London: Joseph Johnson. A Society of Ladies, ed. (1812). "Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction". The Lady's Monthly...
John Duncombe circulated some of her poems in the 1750s, and included her approvingly in TheFeminead; or, Female Genius (1754). Adam Clarke collected...
most interesting of the natural poets." John Duncombe praised her in The Feminead (1754), and Bonnell Thornton and George Colman included her in their Poems...
in TheFeminead. With her husband, she also composed an elegy for a tombstone in Fletton churchyard; the epitaph for the parish clerk appears in The Gentleman's...
losing her paid position in the royal household. She was author of several poems, and is noticed in Duncombe's Feminead. Brigadier-General Douglas died...
Pye, Farringdon Hill Mary Scott, The Female Advocate, a response to TheFeminead 1754 by John Duncombe Thomas Warton the Younger, History of English Poetry...
Duncombe – TheFeminead (answer to 1754's Feminiad) William Duncombe – The Works of Horace in English Verse (various translators). John Dyer – The Fleece...
called TheFeminead, came out in 1757). The poem celebrates virtuous learned women and was meant to encourage women to write. Thomas Gray, The Progress...
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