Table of Contents:
  • Tracing "The Circuit of Appollo": poetic forms and identities in Anne Finch's tributes to women poets
  • "Those Stately Palaces": tribute and estates in the work of Anne Finch and Jane Barker
  • Martha Fowke's tributes to Mary, Lady Chudleigh, 1711 and 1726
  • Eliza Haywood, fame, and the art of self-homage
  • "Who Praises Women Does the Muses Praise": Mary Barber, Laetitia Pilkington, and Constantia Grierson's poetic tributes
  • "Friendship, Better than a Muse, Inspires": Anna Letitia Barbauld claims the sister arts for female friendship
  • Painting in bright characters: Helen Maria Williams's poetic tributes to Anna Seward, Elizabeth Montagu, and Marie-Jeanne Roland
  • Sapphic circuitry: Anna Seward's equivocal tribute to "Llangollen's Vanished Pair"
  • "I Delight in the Success of Your Literary Labours": friendship as platform for reinvention
  • Lyric sociability: object lessons in female friendship in Amelia Opie's occasional verses.