Thomas Birch

EC associated on terms of warmth and equality with men of letters or culture such as Samuel Johnson , Samuel Richardson , Thomas Birch , Moses Browne , Richard Savage , William and John Duncombe

In this milieu EC became friendly with the scholars and writers Thomas Birch , James Ralph , and William Oldys . Oldys, a notable antiquary, later helped her with her editing enterprise, both with advice...

Somehow Charlotte Ramsay secured patronage from Lady Isabella Finch and her sister the Countess (later the Marchioness) of Rockingham . (She left Lady Rockingham's house, however, after some alleged indiscretion with a young man, possibly...

During her time in London, the scholar Thomas Birch paid EC marked attentions. Perhaps he wanted to marry her (though she did not like him); possibly he had a different relationship in mind. He may...

Thomas Birch , editor of her posthumous works (and her tombstone, together with most sources until very recently), gave 16 August 1679 as her birth-date, but this would make her improbably young at the time...