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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Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
Friends, Associates Catherine Talbot
CT met the widowed Duchess of Somerset (better known by her former title of Lady Hertford ), who had been a patron of Elizabeth (Singer) Rowe , and was herself an amateur writer.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
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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...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Talbot
Her recent visit to the Duchess of Somerset (formerly Lady Hertford, whose little grandson and great-nephew were the good and naughty boys of the story) had exposed her to the influence of Elizabeth Singer Rowe
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...
Literary responses Susanna Haswell Rowson
Charlotte Temple has received a great deal of recent critical attention. Steven Epley has discerned a possible connection with Inkle and Yarico (which he classes as folk legend).
Epley, Steven. “Alienated, Betrayed, and Powerless: A Possible Connection between Charlotte Temple and the Legend of Inkle and Yarico”. Papers on Language and Literature, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 200-22.
Going behind George Colman 's stage version...
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...
Publishing Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Rowe herself wrote to Lady Hertford in relation to this publication that she was entirely ignorant of Curll's romance of my life and writings except for an advertisement; that she had written and positively denied...
Dedications Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Watts wrote that he had finished revising her papers on 13 October. Lady Hertford (who had declined to be named in a dedication) wrote on 27 October to thank for the eventual dedication to her...
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...
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.
93
Education Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Besides this, Henry Thynne , son of Viscount Weymouth of Longleat House (nephew by marriage of Anne Finch , and father of the future Lady Hertford ), taught ESR French and Italian. She read very...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Singer Rowe
ESR enjoyed important friendships from around the age of twenty with Anne Finch, Lady Winchilsea , and Lady Hertford . Finch was twelve years older than ESR , and Hertford twenty-five years younger. They each...

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.