Michelle DiCintio

New Author Entries Lady Jane Cavendish, c. 1621-1669: as a young woman growing up in a highly performative social and cultural milieu, she was lead author on two dramatic works (one almost certainly performed) and a body of poetry. Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater, 1626-63: her juvenile part in her sister’s theatrical and poetical … Read more

New Author Entries Anna Williams, 1706-83, translator, poet, and anthologist, whose ambition of compiling a dictionary of scientific terms (in which she was an expert) came to nothing, probably because she was by then totally blind. Lady Anna Miller, 1741-81, travel writer, patron of poetry, and anthologist. Tabitha Tenney, 1762-1837, anthologist (probably) and author of … Read more