Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive
The Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive — ECPA — is a peer-reviewed, award-winning digital archive and research project devoted to English-language poetry of the long eighteenth century. ECPA is open access, it builds on the electronic texts created by the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) from Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).
Key features
- browse authors by names, dates of birth, or gender;
- browse works ( text versions) by titles, first lines, themes, or genres;
- search the poems' full-text and filter results by poetic form;
- view high-quality digital facsimiles of select source editions of the texts used by ECPA;
- use the built-in digital tools (reading, analysis, visualization, modelling) to augment the close reading process of individual poems;
- contribute and share textual notes and glosses, readings and interpretations, observations and suggestions, via easy-to-use forms (just click on any line or word);
- build on the collaborative potential in the classroom to increase student engagement with the texts;
- use the resources (including corpus tools, bibliography, chronology, gallery, etc.) for your further engagement with the field.
Recent additions
Lady Mary Chudleigh
(bap. 19 August 1656 - bur. 15 December 1710)Works in ECPA
- The Choice. A Dialogue between Emilia and Marissa. ()
- A Dialogue between Alexis and Astrea. ()
- A Dialogue between Virgil and Mævius. ()
- The Elevation. ()
- The Fifteenth Psalm Paraphras'd. ()
- FRIENDSHIP. ()
- The Happy Man. ()
- ICARUS. ()
- The Inquiry. A Dialogue between Cleanthe and Marissa. ()
- The Observation. ()
- The Offering. ()
- On the Death of his Highness the Duke of Glocester. ()
- On the Death of my dear Daughter Eliza Maria Chudleigh: A Dialogue between Lucinda and Marissa. ()
- On the Death of my Honoured Mother Mrs. Lee: A Dialogue between Lucinda and Marissa. ()
- On the Vanities of this Life: A Pindarick Ode. ()
- One of Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead Paraphras'd. ()
- A Pindarick Ode. ()
- The Resolution. ()
- The Resolve. ()
- Solitude. ()
- THE SONG OF THE Three Children PARAPHRAS'D. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. To Lerinda. ()
- To Almystrea. ()
- To Clorissa. ()
- To Eugenia. ()
- To Mr. Dryden, on his excellent Translation of Virgil. ()
- To the Ladies. ()
- To the Learn'd and Ingenious Dr. Musgrave of Exeter. ()
- To the QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY. ()
- To the QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY. ()
- The Wish. ()
Source editions
- Chudleigh, Mary Lee, 1656-1710. Poems on several occasions. Together with the Song of the three children paraphras'd. By the Lady Chudleigh. London: Printed by W.B. for Bernard Lintott at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1703. [16],125,[17],73,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T97275)
Bibliography
ODNB 5383
Manuscripts
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Beal, Peter.
Sarah Egerton
. Beal, Peter, ed. Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–1700, 2013. Web. 1 Jul. 2025. https://celm.folger.edu/authors/chudleighmarylady.html.
Editions
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The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh, ed. Margaret J. M. Ezell. New York: OUP, 1993. Print.
Reference works
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Baines, Paul, Julian Ferraro, Pat Rogers, eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 62-63. Print.
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Radcliffe, David H., ed.
Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710)
. Spenser and the Tradition: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830. Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2006. Web. 14 Oct. 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20170908014740/http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?recordid=32903. -
Todd, Janet, ed. A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660-1800. Paperback edition, revised. Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987. 84. Print.
Criticism
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Alexander, Laura.
The forbidden space in Mary, Lady Chudleigh's Song: to Lerinda (1703)
. Renascence 68(2) (2016): 115-125. Print. -
Barash, Carol.
'The Native Liberty … Of The Subject': Configurations of Gender and Authority in the Works of Mary Chudleigh, Sarah Fyge Egerton, and Mary Astell
. Grundy, Isobel and Susan Wiseman, eds. Women, Writing, History: 1640-1799. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1992. 55-69. Print. -
Price, Bronwen.
'In one harmonious song combine': inclusiveness, toleration, and liberty in Lady Mary Chudleigh's The Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd
. English 62(237) (2013): 193-213. Print. -
Price, Bronwen.
'Phantoms of my own creating': amity, elegy and the limits of friendship in Lady Mary Chudleigh's works
. Literature and History 20(1) (2011): 75-91. Print.