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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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
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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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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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, born Mary Pierrepont in May 1689 and dead on 21 August 1762, was one of the most formidable and variously gifted figures of the eighteenth century: poet, letter writer, satirist, aristocrat, traveller, political observer, mother, friend, adversary, and advocate for a medical practice that helped alter the history of public health. She lived in an age that praised female modesty while avidly…
“To be angry is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.”
In time
Elizabeth Thomas
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1675
1762
They overlapped for 43 years (1689–1731).
When Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was born, Elizabeth Thomas was about 14.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was about 42 when Elizabeth Thomas died.
On the map
About 167 km separate Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, Wales from Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire, England. Shared ground: United Kingdom.
Elizabeth Thomas
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
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From the biographies
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Elizabeth Thomas: skenfrith, monmouthshire, corinna, richard gwinnett, pylades, alexander pope, miscellany poems on several subjects, eighteenth-century women writers. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: turkish embassy letters, variolation, smallpox, constantinople, edward wortley montagu, anne wortley, whig politician, evelyn pierrepont.
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.
1694
Matsuo Bashō dies
Elizabeth Thomas
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Emotional landscapes
Elizabeth Thomas: Despair, Sorrow, Anger. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Longing, Spirituality, Tenderness.