Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough
Standard Name: Marlborough, John Churchill,,, first Duke of
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah, Lady Piers | SLP
's husband, whom she married in about 1694, was Sir George Piers
, whose family origins lay in Sussex but whose estate was at Stonepit or Stonepitts in Kent. “FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Trotter | Manley made fairly unlikely allegations that CT
had affairs with John Tilly
(she calls them, after fictional characters, Calista and Cleander), CT
had been called called Calista in The Female Wits; Cleander was... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Docile her longest work of prose fiction, is also autobiographical in its scarifying yet comic account of the naive and idealistic Docile's repeated victimisation. Endowed with perfect docility as a fairy gift, educated first by... |
| Literary Setting | Eliza Haywood | EH
's preface to this epistolary novel presents herself as the (plural) Editors of actual letters. Her hero's name (Colonel Horatio M——s or Manners) and descent (from the late Duke of R—l—d) tie him and... |
| Literary Setting | Delarivier Manley | The lengthy title glosses the fictional setting, which is that of the wars called the Duke of Marlborough
's. The lady has purportedly had [t]aken from her by a French Privateer in her Passage to... |
| politics | Mary, Countess Cowper | The Whig party underwent various travails during MCC
's time in politics. In December 1716 and April 1717, when Lord Townshend
(brother-in-law of Robert Walpole
) was dismissed first from one and then from another... |
| Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | Queen Zarah purports to be translated, not from French but from Italian. In it England is Albigion. The critical preface is in fact a translation of part of Morvan de Bellegarde
's Lettres curieuses... |
| Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | The New Atalantis is crammed with offensive personal attacks on individuals (women as well as men); most though not all of them pertain to the misuse of political or sexual power. Particularly notorious is the... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Boyd | |
| Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Throughout the 1720 LMWM
regularly responded in poetry to events in her social circle. She wrote on an alleged incident of attempted rape; on the deaths of the Duke of Marlborough
, William Congreve
... |
| Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | CT
published A Poem on His Grace the Duke of Marlborough
's return from his German Expedition. Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. |
| Textual Production | Penelope Aubin | |
| Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | CT
published On His Grace the Duke of Marlborough
, A Poem, this time celebrating his victory of Ramillies in present-day Belgium on 12 May Old Style (23 May New Style) this year. Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. |
| Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | She had been working on it for two years, and saw it as an attempt to reform the stage. Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang. 49, 61 |
| Textual Production | Sarah Fyge | SF
wrote a verse address to the Duke of Marlborough
, which seems not to have been printed. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Timeline
4 May 1702: England declared war on France in the War...
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4 May 1702
England declared war on France in the War of Spanish Succession.
13 August 1704: Marlborough and Prince Eugene wiped out the...
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13 August 1704
14 December 1704: Joseph Addison published The Campaign, a...
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14 December 1704
Joseph Addison
published The Campaign, a patriotic poem celebrating Marlborough
's victory of Blenheim.
2 April 1705: Bernard Mandeville published The Grumbling...
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2 April 1705
9 June 1705 : John Vanbrugh was officially appointed architect,...
Building item
9 June 1705
John Vanbrugh
was officially appointed architect, with the assistance of Nicholas Hawksmoor
, to build Blenheim Palace at Woodstock in Oxfordshire as a national thank-offering to the Duke of Marlborough
.
11 September 1709: In a year of difficult military conditions...
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11 September 1709
In a year of difficult military conditions and friction among members of the anti-French alliance, the Duke of Marlborough
won a much trumpeted but in fact somewhat inconclusive victory near the village of Malplaquet.
18 January 1711: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, brought her...
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18 January 1711
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
, brought her trial of wills with Queen Anne
to an end by indignantly returning her key of office.
17 November 1711: The Duke of Marlborough landed in England...
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17 November 1711
The Duke of Marlborough
landed in England after what proved to be his last military campaign.
31 December 1711: The Duke of Marlborough was dismissed from...
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31 December 1711
The Duke of Marlborough
was dismissed from all his posts.
Late 1739: There was published, bearing the date of...
Women writers item
Late 1739
There was published, bearing the date of 1740, The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies
, commonly call'd Mother Ross. Taken from her own mouth, the story of a woman cross-dressing to be a soldier.
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