Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet in 1702. The relationship with Ann Ayscough lasted to the end of Sedley's life. His reputation as a wit and dissolute was partially responsible for the Sedleys of William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair". His most famous song, "Phyllis is My Only Joy", is much more widely known now than the author's name. While Sedley chiefly produced light amatory verse and pastoral dialogues in the 1670s, he turned to satirical epigrams in the 1680s and 1690s. His "Epigrams: or, Court Characters" are modelled on the works of Martial. In his epigram "To Nysus", for example, Sedley describes the function of satire
The Hidden Hand (novel) The Hidden Hand (novel) The Hidden Hand (or Capitola the Madcap) is a serial novel by E. D. E. N. Southworth first published in the "New York Ledger" in 1859, and was Emma Southworth's most popular novel. It was serialized twice more, first in 1868-69 and then again 1883 (in slightly revised form), before first appearing in book form in 1888. The novel was also serialized in the London "Guide to Literature, Science, Art, and General Information" simultaneous to its first publication in the New York Ledger. The name of the novel was changed to "The Masked Mother" for the