The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh

The first edition of the collected poetry and prose of the Restoration feminist, Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710), this volume includes The Ladies Defence as well as her final prose meditations. New biographical and bibliographical information in the Introduction revises the existing accounts of her life and literary career. The volume makes available for the first time the complete range of Chudleigh's literary experiments and calls for a reassessment of the image of the woman writer of the Restoration. A friend of John Dryden and Mary Astell, Chudleigh experimented with a variety of literary forms, from satire to biblical paraphrase, but always maintained her belief in the importance of education for women and the necessity for self-determination.

Margaret J.M. Ezell is Professor of English at Texas AandM University.

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xvii
The Ladies Defence: Or, The Bride-Woman's Counsellor Answer'd
To all Ingenious Ladies	p. 3
The Preface to the Reader	p. 11
The Ladies Defence: Or, a Dialogue Between Sir John Brute, Sir William Loveall, Melissa, and a Parson	p. 15
Poems on Several Occasions
To The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty	p. 43
Preface	p. 44
On the Death of his Highness the Duke of Glocester	p. 47
On the Vanities of this Life	p. 59
To Almystrea	p. 66
To Clorissa	p. 67
To Mr. Dryden, on his excellent Translation of Virgil	p. 70
Song	p. 73
To Eugenia	p. 74
Song: To Lerinda	p. 76
Song	p. 76
The Wish	p. 77
The Elevation	p. 78
Friendship	p. 79
The Happy Man	p. 79
A Dialogue between Alexis and Astrea	p. 80
To the Ladies	p. 83
To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty	p. 84
The Resolution	p. 88
A Pindarick Ode	p. 112
Icarus	p. 114
Song	p. 116
A Dialogue between Virgil and Maevius	p. 118
To the Learn'd and Ingenious Dr. Musgrave of Exeter	p. 120
The Observation	p. 124
Solitude	p. 126
On the Death of my Honoured Mother Mrs. Lee	p. 129
On the Death of my dear Daughter Eliza Maria Chudleigh	p. 135
The Offering	p. 140
The Resolve	p. 144
Song	p. 145
The Inquiry	p. 146
The Choice	p. 152
The Fifteenth Psalm Paraphras'd	p. 155
One of Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead Paraphras'd	p. 157
To the Queen's most Excellent Majesty	p. 161
The Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd
The Preface	p. 169
The Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd	p. 177
Essays upon Several Subjects in Prose and Verse
To Her Royal Highness The Princess Sophia	p. 245
To The Reader	p. 246
Of Knowledge	p. 251
Of Pride	p. 261
Of Humility	p. 268
Of Life	p. 274
Of Death	p. 276
Of Fear	p. 281
Of Grief	p. 286
Of Riches	p. 296
Of Self-Love	p. 301
Of Justice	p. 305
Of Anger	p. 311
Of Calumny	p. 332
Of Friendship	p. 343
Of Love	p. 352
Of Avarice	p. 363
Of Solitude	p. 385
Index of First Lines of Poems	p. 391
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