Sir William Yonge
Standard Name: Yonge, Sir William
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Eliza Haywood | |
| Textual Production | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | The circumstances of misattribution are mysterious, but literary historian Michael F. Suarez
guesses that Dodsley and William Shenstone
deliberately printed this poem as Montagu
's in order to preserve the reputation of the real author... |
| Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | According to the surviving manuscript, the two women produced their verse responses on the very day that Eleanor Bowes was said (years later, by the cynical Horace Walpole
) to die of the violence of... |
Timeline
30 June 1724
The House of Lords
began hearing William Yonge
's case for divorcing his wife.