Elizabeth Thomas, who wrote under the name “Corinna,” was born in 1675 and died in 1731. She belongs to that large and fascinating company of early eighteenth-century women writers whose lives survive only in fragments: poems, letters, dedications, hostile anecdotes, printers’ advertisements, and the recollections of men whose literary fame later eclipsed theirs. Yet Thomas was far more than a minor satellite of Alex…
Compare Poets
Pick two poets who seem to have nothing to do with each other — a Gothic American and a pastoral Englishman, say — and see where the catalogue actually joins them: overlapping years, shared ground, distinctive themes, and the poems that secretly rhyme.
Poet A
Elizabeth Thomas
Poet B
Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan
Compare two related contemporaries
A random pair who overlapped in time and whose poems already rhyme in the catalogue — a way into poets you may not have met.
Kindred spirits
Their work already rhymes in the catalogue. The rest of this page is the story around that rhyme.
Biography 69%
Poems 84%
Blended 76%
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Another related pair
Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan, later Caroline Norton and, in the final months of her life, Lady Stirling-Maxwell, was born in London on 22 March 1808 and died in London on 15 June 1877. She was a poet, novelist, dramatist, political hostess, journalist, pamphleteer, and one of the most consequential campaigners for married women’s legal rights in nineteenth-century Britain. Her fame during her lifetime rested partly on…
“The wife, during the marriage, is in the position of a minor; she can neither make a contract nor sue in her own name.”
In time
Elizabeth Thomas
Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan
1675
1877
Their lives did not overlap.
77 years separate the earlier death from the later birth.
On the map
About 187 km separate Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, Wales from Mayfair, London. Shared ground: United Kingdom.
Elizabeth Thomas
Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan
Themes they return to
Distinctive words drawn from each poet’s critiqued poems — what they keep writing about, not just what their biographies mention.
Shared
Elizabeth Thomas only
From the biographies
woman
women
social
Elizabeth Thomas: skenfrith, monmouthshire, corinna, richard gwinnett, pylades, alexander pope, miscellany poems on several subjects, eighteenth-century women writers. Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan: london, caroline henrietta callander, the sorrows of rosalie, the undying one, george chapple norton, lord melbourne, custody of infants act 1839, richard brinsley sheridan.
Poems that secretly rhyme
The closest poem-to-poem matches in critique space — the sort of kinship a listener hears before the catalogue admits it.
The world around them
Elizabeth Thomas
Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan
Emotional landscapes
Elizabeth Thomas: Despair, Sorrow, Anger. Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan: Longing, Sorrow, Despair.