Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford

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Standard Name: Hertford, Frances Seymour,,, Countess of
Birth Name: Frances Thynne
Married Name: Frances Seymour
Titled: Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
Titled: Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset
Nickname: Fanny
Pseudonym: Eusebia
Nickname: Renée
Used Form: Renee
Living an upper-class life in the eighteenth century, Lady Hertford did not publish; her patronage activity was as important as her writing. But as well as letters, a fragmentary political journal, and commonplace-books, she wrote poems, some of which, circulating in manuscript, drifted into print in her lifetime, while a few achieved some notoriety. She claimed that she wrote for her own pleasure and found it easy to suppress any stirrings of ambition.
Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press.
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Travel Catherine Talbot
From this point on CT spent part of her time at Canterbury. She often stayed at Percy Lodge (near Iver in Buckinghamshire) with the Duchess of Somerset (formerly Lady Hertford) , and in 1760...
Travel Elizabeth Singer Rowe
She occasionally visited Lady Hertford at Marlborough in Wiltshire.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text George Paston
GP shows here her interest in women writers, all of them letter-writers and commentators on the social scene. They are, apart from Anne Grant of Laggan, all noblewomen: Elizabeth Craven (later Lady Berkeley and later again Margravine of Anspach)
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Katharine Elwood
Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Griselda Murray , Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford , Hester Lynch Piozzi
Textual Production Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
She also adapted works by Henry Fielding and George Lillo , and a version of the Inkle and Yarico story originated by Richard Steele and versified by Frances, Lady Hertford .
National Union Catalog. Roman and Littlefield.
Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
ESR corresponded with Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford , who was herself a poet and letter-writer.
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
ESR 's friend Lady Hertford and her admirer Isaac Watts published, by her desire, the first of her posthumous works: Devout Exercises of the Heart.
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
This volume (seen through the press by Theophilus Rowe ) prints in edited and sometimes re-arranged form many of ESR 's actual letters to Lady Hertford , many of which incorporate poems and some of...
Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
The second edition, published the following year, added two more books.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Bigold, Melanie. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Trotter, Carter, and Rowe.
ESR had written most of this poem years earlier. The last two books were written in no more than two days. The whole was...
Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
The work she translated was Algarotti 's Italian version of Newton 's Optics. The project of translating back from the Italian popularisation of this famous work was recommended to her by Thomas Birch ....
Textual Features Anne Finch
Many of the poems in this volume are political (Jacobite) or religious in feeling. To the Right Honourable Frances Countess of Hartford is a playful warning to a very young patron to not degrade support...
Textual Features Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
All the mock eclogues (written, like most of Montagu's more ambitious poetry, in heroic couplets with the occasional triplet) target actual individuals and refer to events which were gossip of the day. Monday, Wednesday...
Reception Elizabeth Singer Rowe
The same month Benjamin Colman 's tribute was published on the front page of the Boston Weekly News-Letter.
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang.
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In March, the Gentleman's Magazine had already printed a notice of Rowe's death and a...
Publishing Sarah Scott
It was published anonymously. The French original was current in England at this time, since the Duchess of Somerset (patron and poet, formerly Lady Hertford) read and enjoyed it in the year before Scott's translation...
Publishing Mary Jones
This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange : Anne, daughter of George II and the late Queen Caroline . The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ 's friend Martha Lovelace, later...

Timeline

12 June 1724: Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford reported that...

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12 June 1724

Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford reported that the English Court had almost universally taken to wearing French fashions.

March 1748: The Poems of Thomas Warton the elder were...

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March 1748

The Poems of Thomas Warton the elder were published by subscription.

12 February 1765: Thomas Percy published his edited Reliques...

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12 February 1765

Thomas Percy published his edited Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, a rediscovery of poems from the middle ages. He dedicated it to the Duchess of Northumberland , daughter of the poet and letter-writer Lady Hertford .

September 1770: It was rumoured that the Duke and Duchess...

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September 1770

It was rumoured that the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland planned to hold not one but two Public Days a week.
The duchess was a letter-writer of note; her mother, as Lady Hertford , had...

2 September 1788: The theatre at Richmond, Yorkshire, opened...

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2 September 1788

The theatre at Richmond, Yorkshire, opened with George Colman 's Inkle and Yarico.

Texts

Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford, and Henrietta Louisa Fermor, Countess of Pomfret. Correspondence between Frances, Countess of Hartford and Henrietta Louisa, Countess of Pomfret. Richard Phillips, 1805.
Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford,. “Inkle and Yarico: An Epistle from Yarico to Inkle”. A New Miscellany: Being a Collection of Pieces of Poetry, T. Warner, 1725.
Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford,. The Story of Inkle and Yarrico. J. Cooper, 1738.