Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie.
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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 | 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... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Brereton |
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