Elizabeth Sican
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Elizabeth Sican, literary critic, was part of Jonathan Swift
's "triumfeminate," along with Mary Barber
and Constantia Grierson
. Little is known of her apart from her participation in Swift's Dublin literary circle.
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St...
's "triumfeminate," along with Mary Barber
Mary Barber
Mary Barber , poet, was a member of Swift's circle.- Life :Barber's parents are unknown; she married Rupert Barber , a Dublin woollen draper, and had nine children, four of whom survived to adulthood...
and Constantia Grierson
Constantia Grierson
Constantia Grierson [née Crawley] , was an editor, poet, and classical scholar from County Kilkenny, Ireland.- Life :...
. Little is known of her apart from her participation in Swift's Dublin literary circle.
Resources
- Budd, Adam. "'Merit in distress': The Troubled Success of Mary Barber," The Review of English Studies 53.210 (2002):204-227.
- Coleborne, Bryan. “Barber, Mary (c.1685–1755).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. 1 Apr. 2007.