Peart-Bate coterie
A Stamford, Lincolnshire coterie featuring Sally and Arabella Bate, Joshua Peart, and his youngest sister Eleanor. Eleanor created this compilation of their poetry in 1768. Beinecke Osborn c150 contains a prose description of masquerade costumes including those worn by members of the Peart family.
- Regions: Stamford, Lincolnshire
- Lincolnshire
Arabella Bate
| Coteries | Peart-Bate coterie |
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Sister of Sally Bate and friend of Eleanor Peart; author or addressee of several poems in Peart’s compilation.
Sally Bate
| Coteries | Peart-Bate coterie |
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Poet and friend of Eleanor Peart; author or addressee of numerous poems in Peart’s compilation.
Eleanor Peart
| Coteries | Peart-Bate coterie |
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Stamford-based compiler of a manuscript verse miscellany; the miscellany, which she created as a young woman, is centred around her family (including her brother Joshua Peart) and her friends Sally and Arabella Bate.
Joshua Peart (Jr.)
| Coteries | Peart-Bate coterie |
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Later Joshua Scrope, barister; his poems and epistles to his sister, Eleanor Peart, are included in her manuscript verse miscellany.
Beinecke Osborn c150
| Title | Untitled |
|---|---|
| Period | 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
Anonymous, though several items related to Pettiwards, ca. 1767–1783.
107 items (30 prose).
Pet poems; very miscellaneous prose items including a description of masquerade ball in Lincolnshire attended by Peart-Bate coterie members.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 28
| Title | A Collection of Poems by various Hands, but [...] |
|---|---|
| Period | 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Bodleian Library |
Eleanor Peart, 1768.
Organized chronologically and thematically.
182 poems.
A high proportion of original poetry; strong emphasis on the pastoral including the use of pastoral pseudonyms.
| Period | Description | Manuscripts | Coteries |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1761-1790 | some or all of the miscellany's compilation period falls within this timespan |
84 | 7 |