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618:(1754) praised both her character and her writing. As late as 1803 an anonymous writer suggested that Rowe represented “Virtue and all her genuine beauty recommend her to the choice and admiration of a rising generation." She became a "cultural authority", influencing later women writers and 19th-century Christian female activists. Her works were reprinted nearly annually until 1855, out of print by 1860, and in 1897 she was not even mentioned in
386:. In the preface, Rowe states her didactic intent, "The Drift of these Letters is, to impress the Notion of the Soul's Immortality; without which, all Virtue and Religion, with their Temporal and Eternal good Consequences, must fall to the Ground." According to the spirits, death is to be welcomed and not feared since the soul experiences bliss in heaven.
217:, she married the poet and biographer Thomas Rowe, 13 years her junior, in 1710. Their marriage was reportedly happy, but short: Thomas died of tuberculosis in 1715. After his death, Rowe left London and returned to Frome and joined her father in Rook Lane House, where a plaque in her memory has been placed.
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of friends and loved ones go to heaven. The subject matter of the letters consists mainly of moral dilemmas and contemporary issues; many of the letters are reminiscent of moral essays, while others are closer to the situations depicted in novels. Here Rowe seems to be conducting a campaign against the
201:, Somerset, where she was tutored in French and Italian by Henry Thynne, son of the first Viscount Weymouth of Longleat, Wiltshire. The connections Rowe made at Longleat benefited her literary career and initiated a lifelong friendship with Frances Thynne, the viscount's daughter. Thynne's great-aunt,
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and the gap grew wider as the century progressed. The work consists of imaginary letters from virtuous friends and loved ones, including a two-year-old child to his grieving mother, who have died, gone to heaven and wish to impart spiritual advice, mainly in the interest of making sure that the souls
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review that essayists in the collection "seem generally to have imitated, or tried to imitate, the copiousness and luxuriance of Mrs. Rowe. This, however, is not all their praise; they have laboured to add to her brightness of imagery, her purity of sentiment" and he gave her credit for a mastery of
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was a three-part series of fictionalized letters focusing on love, marriage and death. Perhaps best described as a didactic miscellany, this work also contained religious poetry, pastorals, translations of Tasso and actual letters from the correspondence between Rowe and Lady
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Epistles from the Dead to the Living," and she carefully put her papers in order before her death, even writing farewell letters to
233:, a bookseller and founder of the Athenian Society, which was the source material for Dunton's "outrageous," "hilarious" and "sinister", 61-page summary of his relationship with Rowe entitled "The Double Courtship." Between 1693 and 1696 she was the principal contributor of poetry to Dunton's
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159:, 1674–1737) was an English poet, essayist and fiction writer called "the ornament of her sex and age" and the "Heavenly Singer". She was among 18th-century England's most widely read authors. She wrote mainly religious poetry, but her best-known work,
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friends in what seems "to have been conceived as part of a posthumous 'good-death' print event staged" by Rowe herself. She died on 20 February 1737 of apoplexy and was interred with her father in his grave at Rook Lane
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from seducers, to saving the mind and soul of the heroine from the corrupt world through the virtuous self-control that results from contemplation, thus sealing the plot trajectory of subsequent fiction as evidenced in later novels such as
315:." This volume included one of her best known poems, "On the Death of Mr. Thomas Rowe", an impassioned poem which she wrote in response to the untimely death of her husband. The poem is said to have been an inspiration for
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lauded Rowe's "happy elegance of thought," describing her verse as "refin'd by virtue" with "powerful strains wake the nobler passions of the soul." Rowe's contemporaries considered her the "virtuous successor of
163:(1728), is a Jansenist miscellany of imaginary letters from the dead to the living. Despite a posthumous reputation as a pious, bereaved recluse, Rowe corresponded widely and was involved in local concerns at
171:. She remained popular into the 19th century on both sides of the Atlantic and in translation. Though little read today, scholars have called her stylistically and thematically radical for her time.
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604:, 18th-century literary antiquarian and biographer, held up Rowe as the epitome of his domesticated model of the virtuous and modest, ideal woman writer in his highly influential
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Elizabeth Singer Rowe's "Devout Exercises of the Heart in Meditation and Soliloquy, Prayer and Praise," originally published in 1737 (1802 edition).
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Prescott, Sarah (2001). "Provincial
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first published in 1728, went through at least 79 editions by 1825 and another ten by 1840. In the 18th century, editions of this work consistently outnumbered
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