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Other Life Event | Lady Eleanor Douglas | |
Wealth and Poverty | Eliza Fenwick | EF
's husband
, many times threatened with arrest for debt, went bankrupt and was confined in the Fleet Prison
. Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2ndnd ed, Broadview, pp. 7 - 34, 361. 13 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | ESG
, in the Fleet Prison
, dated the preface to An Appeal to the Public, to which she signed her full name: Elizabeth Sarah Villa-Real Gooch. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | Despite her efforts on the provincial stage, she was re-arrested for debt and sent first to the Marshalsea
and then to the Fleet Prison
in London. Major, Joanne, and Sarah Murden. “Elizabeth Sarah Villa-Real—Mrs Gooch”. All Things Georgian. Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah. An Appeal to the Public. G. Kearsley. 66 |
politics | Rose Hickman | The Marian government sometimes confiscated goods from Anthony Hickman
's ships. After it made attendance at Roman Catholic Mass compulsory in 1554, he began smuggling Protestant preachers abroad. Then he and his business partner Thomas Locke |
Family and Intimate relationships | Delarivier Manley | DM
was introduced by Catharine Trotter
to John Tilly
, governor of the Fleet Prison
; he became her first long-term lover, with whom she stayed till December 1702. Ballaster, Ros. “Early Women Writers: Lives and Times. Delarivier Manley (c. 1663-1724)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol. 5 , No. 1, pp. 2-5. 3 |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Robinson | MR
's husband
was arrested for debt (some of which predated his marriage); she accompanied him to the Fleet Prison
, and did not leave it for almost ten months. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen. xi Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen. 79 |
Wealth and Poverty | Jane Squire | JS
was released from the Fleet Prison
following the passage through parliament of an Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Wealth and Poverty | Jane Squire | Having failed to recover a lost investment through the law courts, JS
was arrested for debt and committed to London's Fleet Prison
. It seems that she owed £3,400 to people named Bower (or... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Leah Sumbel | The actress Mary Wells became LS
when, in the Fleet Prison
in London, she married her second husband, Joseph Haim Sumbel
, a Moroccan Jew educated in France. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
Wealth and Poverty | Leah Sumbel | After the break-up of her second marriage LS
lived for about eighteen months at Hammersmith with her sister and brother-in-law, who were back from the West Indies. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Thomas | Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University. 122 |
Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Thomas | A warrant was issued for the release of Rebecca Mills
notes that Curll dates the warrant, wrongly, 3 July. Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University. 122 Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University. 122 |
Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Thomas | This was the low point (so far) in Thomas's life. Gwinnett had changed his will less than three weeks before his death, and left her 600 pounds, but his family ensured that it did not... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Thomas | Despite the thirty-pound offer, when |
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