Telling Love: Twelfth Night in Samuel Richardson, Teresia Constantia Phillips, and William Blake

This article examines uses made of Viola’s ‘She never told her love’ speech from Shake-speare’s Twelfth Night in the eighteenth century. Starting with its ubiquity in the period’s anthology literature, it turns to the more exploratory appropriations made by Samuel Richardson, Teresia Constantia Phillips, and William Blake.