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- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2008 The University of North Carolina Press.
- ISSN
- 1543-0383
Abstract
<p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay contends that Alexander Pope wrote the short prose work <i>The Character of Katharine, Duchess of Buckingham</i>, published two years after Pope's death in 1746 but absent from modern editions. External and internal evidence is marshalled to illustrate how Pope wrote the <i>Character</i> in 1729 from materials supplied by the Duchess of Buckingham, including a recently discovered scribal copy of the <i>Character</i> among the duchess's papers, which preserves significant textual variants. Pope and the duchess later quarrelled after she tried to pay him for writing the <i>Character</i>, as though he was a hireling writer. This prompted Pope to write a new and hostile character of the duchess in <i>An Epistle to a Lady</i> and, after the duchess's death in 1743, to disown the <i>Character</i> as an original composition. A collated edition of the text is provided as an appendix.</p>
Journal
Studies in Philology – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Apr 6, 2018