Rowe, Elizabeth - Myra Reynolds (essay date 1920)
Myra Reynolds (essay date 1920)
SOURCE: "General Learning and Literary Work," in The Learned Lady in England, 1650–1760, 1920; Reprint, Peter Smith, 1964, pp. 137–57.
[In the following excerpt, originally published in 1920 and reprinted in 1964, Reynolds describes Rowe's life, education, and the social context of her writing.]
Mr. Walter Singer, a dissenting minister of Frome, was early left a widower with three daughters. Two of these daughters showed while still young exceptionally good minds and a natural interest in study. One daughter, who died at nineteen, was devoted to medicine and collected books on that subject. Elizabeth preferred drawing and poetry. She began drawing when her fingers could hardly hold the pencil, and she squeezed out the juices of plants to make colors. Her father furnished her an excellent master, and she attained sufficient skill so that throughout her life her work was highly prized by her friends. She...
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