Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William, first Earl Cowper
King George I
Standard Name: George I, King
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Author summary | Mary, Countess Cowper | Most of MCC
's extant writings were produced with some immediate political purpose. Even her loving letters to her husband are attentive to the state of the nation and to his career within it. Other... |
| politics | Mary, Countess Cowper | MCC
supported the Whig party, in which her husband, Lord Cowper, was a leading player. |
| Textual Production | Mary, Countess Cowper | MCC
and her husband
exchanged affectionate letters from before their marriage. Some years before George I
succeeded to the English throne she established contact with his chief minister, Baron Bernstorff
, by letter. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Production | Mary, Countess Cowper | At the turning point of George I
's accession, Lord Cowper
established his position in the new political landscape through A Treatise on the State of Parties (otherwise known as An Impartial History of Parties... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary, Countess Cowper | This document succeeded in its aim: George I
favoured the Whigs throughout his reign, although his naturally autocratic tendencies might well have inclined him more towards the Tories. |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Occupation | Mary, Countess Cowper | In the distribution of favours that marked King George
's accession, MCC
was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to his daughter-in-law Caroline of Anspach
, now Princess of Wales. Mary, Countess Cowper,. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray. 6-7 |
| politics | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
spent an exciting time in London as a member of the Whig elite now in power under George I
. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon. 82ff, 117 |
| Textual Features | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | Here she relates the romantic tale of the marriage of Marie Casimire Clémentine Sobieski
(or Clementina Sobieska) to James Edward Stuart
, known to British history as the Old Pretender. She draws her material from... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield | Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
, made an ambitious marriage: to Petronilla Melusina von der Schulenburg
, illegitimate daughter of George I
. Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press. |
| Violence | Teresia Constantia Phillips | TCP
's account firmly states that, though she had been out with Mr Grimes (to see a firework display in honour of George I
's return from Hanover), she flatly refused him sex. Over the... |
| 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 | Jane Porter | It was published by Longman
in three volumes. Porter, Jane. Duke Christian of Luneburg. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, http://U of A, Special Collections. title-page Porter, Jane. Duke Christian of Luneburg. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, http://U of A, Special Collections. 1: v-viii |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Clara Reeve | CR
's mother (born Hannah Smithies) was the daughter of a London goldsmith who was a jeweller to George I
. Clara lived with her mother for most of her life. Trainer, James, and Clara Reeve. “Introduction”. The Old English Baron, Oxford University Press. xii |
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