Probably fits in other categories, but what I haven't created yet Flashcards
(41 cards)
Who was a popular working class poet?
Stephen Duck
Who was a farm hand at 13?
Stephen Duck
Who wrote, read, and studied at night?
Stephen Duck
Who was very religious?
Stephen Duck
Who had Queen Caroline as his patroness?
Stephen Duck
What did Queen Caroline give Stephen Duck?
A small house and annuity to write
Who criticized Stephen Duck?
Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift
Who ended up left without a patron?
Stephen Duck
Who died by suicide?
Stephen Duck
Who grew up in a poor family?
Mary Collier
Who was taught to read?
Mary Collier
Where did Mary Collier work?
as a field laborer, washerwoman, brewer, and housekeeper
plebian
Commoner
who was considered a plebian?
Mary Collier and Stephen Duck
What did Mary Collier argue?
poor women work all day in fields and then all evening on domestic chores
When did Mary Collier retire?
Age 70 because she physically had to
Who had an abusive dad?
Thomas Gray
Who was 5 of 12 kids, but the only one to survive infancy?
Thomas Gray
Who did Thomas’s Gray’s group of friends include?
Horace Walpole
Who had a good group of friends?
Thomas Gray
Who went on a European Grand Tour?
Thomas Gray (Walpole paid)
Who stayed at Cambridge as a scholar?
Thomas Gray
Who was highly regarded?
Thomas Gray
Who was a “Graveyard poet”?
Thomas Gray
