Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater
Most of the Egerton family's books and literary papers were acquired by Henry E. Huntington
in the early twentieth century and now form part of the collections of the Huntington Library
. Manuscripts of ECECB
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Ephelia
The royal licence indicates that the gentlewoman attribution must have been accurate. The date belongs to the height of the plot: that is, the anti-Catholic furore that followed the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
The play was too long, so some passages were omitted in performance.
Wallace, Eglinton. The Ton, or Follies of Fashion. A Comedy. T, Hookham.
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The manuscript is now Larpent 801 in the Huntington Library
. A Dublin edition quickly followed the London one.
“Eighteenth Century Collections Online”. Gale Databases.
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Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater
The present BL
Egerton MS 607 was at one time owned by the author's descendant Samuel Egerton Brydges
. Two contemporary copies of this manuscript, one of them with extensive and important annotation by the...
The manuscript is now in the Huntington Library
: Larpent 1093. The full title, as published with EW
's name, was The Whim, A Comedy. . . . With an Address to the Public, upon...
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Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater
Lady Bridgewater's extended, ambitious Meditations on the Severall Chapters of the Holy Bible, in her own hand with revisions in her husband
's, in folio with a particularly lovely binding,
Travitsky, Betty, and Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater. “Subordination and Authorship: Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton”. Subordination and Authorship: the case of Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton and her &quot:loose papers", Tempe, Ariz., pp. 1-172.
138
survives in the...
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Sarah Gardner
SG
mentions cutting two lines from her play on the censor's suggestion on grounds of mainstream politics. She does not mention cuts on grounds of gender politics, but she apparently made two. In the manuscript...
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Elizabeth Montagu
A new edition followed in June 1765.
Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable.
The manuscript submitted to the censor, Larpent MS 992, survives in the Huntington Library
.
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Hannah More
HM
was a formidably energetic letter-writer all her life, from her early visits to London, which produced scintillating and gossippy letters home, to her old age. Individual collections reached print, like those to Zachary Macaulay
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27 November 1807: The Sans Pareil Theatre in London (later...
Women writers item
27 November 1807
The Sans Pareil Theatre
in London (later the Adelphi), built by manufacturer John Scott, opened with an entertainment of speeches, songs, etc. written by his daughter, Jane Scott
.
April 1947: A Bethlehem antiquities dealer bought some...
Writing climate item
April 1947
A Bethlehem antiquities dealer bought some papyrus scrolls found by a Bedouin shepherd in a cave at Qumran near the Dead Sea. One copy of the book of Isaiah has proved to be the...
Texts
Child, Elizabeth. “Elizabeth Montagu, Bluestocking Businesswoman”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 153-73.
Eger, Elizabeth. “‘Out rushed a female to protect the Bard’: The Bluestocking Defense of Shakespeare”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 127-51.
Guest, Harriet. “Bluestocking Feminism”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 59-80.
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery,. Guide to Literary Manuscripts in the Huntington Library. Huntington Library, 1979.
Kelly, Gary. “Clara Reeve, Provincial Bluestocking: From the Old Whigs to the Modern Liberal State”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 105-25.
Lanser, Susan Sniader. “Bluestocking Sapphism and the Economies of Desire”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 257-75.
Magrath, Jane. “’Rags of Mortality’: Negotiating the Body in the Bluestocking Letters”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 235-56.
Major, Emma. “The Politics of Sociability: Public Dimensions of the Bluestocking Millennium”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 175-92.
Pohl, Nicole, and Betty Schellenberg. “Introduction: A Bluestocking Historiography”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 1-19.
Rizzo, Betty. “Two Versions of Community: Montagu and Scott”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 193-14.
Staves, Susan. “Church of England Clergy and Women Writers”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 81-103.