English: Faculty Publications
Mary Scott, Sarah Froud, and the Steele Literary Circle: A Revealing Annotation to the Female Advocate
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2014
Publication Title
Huntington Library Quarterly
DOI
10.1525/hlq.2014.77.4.435
Abstract
In this essay, Timothy Whelan links Mary Scott, author of the early feminist poem The Female Advocate (1774), to a circle of West Country women writers led by the poet Mary Steele. A copy of The Female Advocate in the Huntington Library once belonged to a member of the Steele circle, Sarah Froud, whose identity has remained hidden and whose annotations have been largely misinterpreted. An examination of the correspondence of Steele and Scott presents a detailed picture of how these women viewed love and marriage in the 1770s and the difficult legacy such views posed for them by the 1790s.
Recommended Citation
Whelan, Timothy, "Mary Scott, Sarah Froud, and the Steele Literary Circle: A Revealing Annotation to the Female Advocate" (2014). English: Faculty Publications. 34.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/english-facpubs/34
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Comments
Georgia Southern University faculty member, Timothy Whelan authored, "Mary Scott, Sarah Froud, and the Steele Literary Circle: A Revealing Annotation to the Female Advocate."