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Friends, Associates | Lady Anne Barnard | Lady Anne lived much of her life in fashionable society, and her acquaintance was very wide. In Edinburgh in her early twenties she impressed and delighted Samuel Johnson
with an impromptu and complimentary bon mot... |
politics | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | She was summoned to accompany Mrs Fitzherbert
to the Prince of Wales on 8 July 1784, on the tragi-comic occasion when he stabbed himself and then married Fitzherbert as a deathbed act (though he then... |
Publishing | Eliza Parsons | She gave her name as Mrs. Parsons on the title-page and signed the dedication with both her names. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 512 |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | The first-named is George I
's rejected queen
(accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover
was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Henrietta Battier | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eglinton Wallace | In the play Lord Crotchet, who is a scholar of ancient Rome and thinks it superior to the modern world, plans a day of saturnalia, when servants change places with their masters. This is presented... |
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