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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Brereton | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary, Countess Cowper | Much of the diary is filled with reports of jockeying for personal power: the names dropped are those of people forming and breaking alliances. By spring 1716 it has become gradually more expansive on topics... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Haywood | This magazine has a second supposed author: the parrot, who is male. This creature, born in Java, has seen the world, since its long life has been spent with fifty-five different families successively. Though not... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | The first event she records was an ultimatum from the Prince of Wales
to his father, George II
, whom he enraged by demanding Walpole's removal. She describes how, after Walpole fell, power struggles among... |
Textual Production | Penelope Aubin | PA
's History of Genghizcan the Great, translated from the French of François Pétis de la Croix
, appeared in 1722, dedicated to the Prince of Wales
. Both Debbie Welham
and Eighteenth-Century Collections... |
Textual Production | Grisell Murray | Few of GM
's letters survive, but in winter 1737-8 she was writing to her uncle Alexander, Earl of Marchmont
(the little brother Sandy of her memoir about her mother). Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie. 38 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Boyd | EB
published an anonymous pamphlet containing her two poems on George II
's victory at the battle of Dettingen on 16 June. Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. |
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... |
Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | The omission was itself a political statement: the epilogue is a poem in praise of the then German prince who in due course became George II
, which also dwells on recent politically-caused friction between... |
Textual Production | Mary, Countess Cowper | She spared the part covering the first two years, and what she had written for 1720 (mostly the months of April and May). Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Mary, Countess Cowper,. “Introduction”. Diary, edited by Charles Spencer Cowper, John Murray, p. v - xvi. xi, xiv |
Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | In The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania, EH
mounted an anonymous, thinly-disguised attack on the morals and circle of the Prince of Wales, the future George II
... |
Textual Features | Mary Latter | Here the solitary, sorrowing Muse is roused by beams of light and a seraphic vision announcing that This Day—illustrious George
becomes a Sire! Latter, Mary. A Lyric Ode. C. Bathurst. v |
Textual Features | Charlotte McCarthy | CMC
here uses a jaunty six-line stanza to complain of corrupt politicians. She also uses some scurrility. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | MO
published in Blackwoods her Historical Sketches of the Reign of George II, whose subjects include Queen Caroline
(his wife) and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press. 341 |
politics | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | She frequented both of the incompatible court circles—those of the king and of the Prince
and Princess of Wales
—apparently in search of a power base. |
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