Elizabeth Moody with her sons Samuel and Thomas. Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), circa 1779-1785. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Elizabeth Moody (April 1737 - December 10, 1814) was an English poet and literary critic.
Life[]
She was born Elizabeth Greenlyat Kingston-upon-Surrey, the daughter of a wealthy lawyer, who died when she was 13 but left a legacy for her family.[1]
A booklover from an early age, she was well read in English, French, and Italian literature. For many years she privately circulated verse in a circle that included Edward Lovibond and George Hardinge.[1]
She remained unmarried until 1777, when she wed dissenting clergyman Christopher Lake Moody (1753–1915), vicar of Turnham Green.[1]
She reviewed for Monthly Review and for the St. James Chronicle.[1]
Publications[]
- Poetical Trifles. H. Baldwin & Son, for T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies, 1798.
Anthologized[]
- Margaret R. Higonnet, ed (1996). British women poets of the 19th century. Meridian. ISBN 978-0-452-01161-8.
- Emma Donoghue, ed (1997). What Sappho would have said: four centuries of love poems between women. Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 978-0-241-13682-9.
- Paula R. Feldman, ed (1997). British women poets of the Romantic era: an anthology. Johns Hopkins University Press.
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Mary A. Waters (2004). British women writers and the profession of literary criticism, 1789-1832. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-3626-4. http://books.google.com/books?id=4PAWb-07oBsC&pg=PA141&dq=%22Elizabeth+greenly+%22&lr=&cd=3#v=onepage&q=%22Elizabeth%20greenly%20%22&f=false.
External links[]
- Poems
- Elizabeth Moody 1737-1814 at the Poetry Foundation
- Elizabeth Moody at PoemHunter (2 poems)
- "To a Lady Who Sent the Author a Present of a Fashionable Bonnet": Poem of the Week at The Guardian
- About
- "Elizabeth Moody" in the Literary Encyclopedia
- Elizabeth Moody by Jan Wellington
- Samuel Johnson (2006). Roger H. Lonsdale. ed. The lives of the most eminent English poets: with critical observations on their works. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-928482-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=-yl1QRGO0W4C&pg=PA610&dq=%22Elizabeth+greenly+%22&lr=&cd=33#v=onepage&q=%22Elizabeth%20greenly%20%22&f=false.
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