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…
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Poet A
Elizabeth Thomas
Poet B
Jean Elliot
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A random pair who overlapped in time and whose poems already rhyme in the catalogue — a way into poets you may not have met.
Strongly related
Their work already rhymes in the catalogue. The rest of this page is the story around that rhyme.
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Jean Elliot, often called Jane Elliot in later accounts, was born in April 1727 at Minto House in Teviotdale, Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders, and died on 29 March 1805. She is remembered above all for “The Flowers of the Forest,” one of the most moving lyrics in the Scottish tradition. The apparent smallness of her surviving body of work has sometimes obscured the scale of her achievement. Elliot did not leav…
In time
Elizabeth Thomas
Jean Elliot
1675
1805
They overlapped for 5 years (1727–1731).
When Jean Elliot was born, Elizabeth Thomas was about 52.
Jean Elliot was about 4 when Elizabeth Thomas died.
On the map
About 401 km separate Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, Wales from Minto House, Teviotdale, Roxburghshire, Scotland. Shared ground: United Kingdom.
Elizabeth Thomas
Themes they return to
Distinctive words drawn from each poet’s critiqued poems — what they keep writing about, not just what their biographies mention.
No overlapping top terms in the poem critiques — any kinship may sit in mood rather than vocabulary.
Elizabeth Thomas only
From the biographies
women
Elizabeth Thomas: skenfrith, monmouthshire, corinna, richard gwinnett, pylades, alexander pope, miscellany poems on several subjects, eighteenth-century women writers. Jean Elliot: teviotdale, the flowers of the forest, scottish borders, jacobite rising, sir gilbert elliot, edinburgh, scottish enlightenment, border gentry.
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
While their lives overlapped
Notable events from the years they were both alive.
Elizabeth Thomas
Jean Elliot
Emotional landscapes
Elizabeth Thomas: Despair, Sorrow, Anger. Jean Elliot: Sorrow, Despair, Longing.