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Familiar Letters and Poems on Several Occasions

Title: Familiar Letters and Poems on Several Occasions
Author: Mary Masters
Publisher: London: printed by the author
Language: English
Date: 1755
Format: Print
Genre: Poetry
Subject: Friendship; Charity; Authorial self-presentation; Education/Gender; Science; female virtue; misogyny/male criticism; Contemplation; god nature; Devotional poetry; Grief; Militarism; Monarchy; Imperialism; Age studies; Queer undertones
Contributor: Elizabeth Carter; Edward Cave; Susanna Highmore
Invisibility: Partially (scholarship)
Reception: British contemporary press
Genealogy: access to knowledge and self-presentation as a poet at the margins; evolution self-presentation in her two works; treatment of textual misogyny; queer undertones in context; low-class poetry in context
Porosity: Pope; Prior; Cato; Rev. Norris; Scriptures; Dryden