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Frances Boscawen
Standard Name: Boscawen, Frances
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Elizabeth Carter | The book had gone to press in June 1757. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson | EGF
submitted writing to periodicals under the pseudonyms Laura or Arachne. The postscript to Edward Young
's Resignation. In Two Parts, and a Postscript, published in London and Philadelphia in 1764, addressed to... |
Publishing | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | This novel was published by Hookham
in three volumes, and dedicated to Georgiana's friend Lady Camden
. Its subscription list, in this and the second edition (issued by Hookham in 1787, in two volumes each... |
Publishing | Susannah Gunning | The title-page of this initially three-volume work calls the authors the Miss Minifies of Fairwater in Somersetshire—thus linking their identity with their rank. Gunning, Susannah, and Margaret Minifie. The Histories of Lady Frances S—,— and Lady Caroline S——. R. and J. Dodsley. title-page |
Publishing | Isabella Kelly | Subscribers included John Julius Angerstein
, a colonel related to Anne Bannerman
, Jemima Kindersley
's husband, Frances Boscawen
, Mary Champion de Crespigny
, Henrietta Fordyce
, Lord Hawke
, Countess Lonsdale
(the eldest... |
Publishing | Alethea Lewis | AL
's dedication to Sir Edward Littleton
, Member of Parliament for Stafford, praises him in this capacity and as a landlord. Her subscribers include many friends or relations, as well as writers like... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | She was a well-known figure in London cultural circles, particularly that of the Bluestockings. Charles Burney
called her at-home evenings blue conversazioni's and Horace Walpole
called them quite Mazarine-blue. Others specifically mentioned in... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | The leading figures in the movement were Montagu herself (who spent freely in hospitality, and who was later dubbed the Queen of the Bluestockings or Queen of the Blues) and Carter
(the most intellectually... |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke
in Bristol the previous September... |
Leisure and Society | Hannah More | Frances Boscawen
commissioned another portrait of her, by John Opie
(husband of Amelia Opie). Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 57 |
Wealth and Poverty | Hannah More | HM
left more than one-third of her estate—over £10,000—to charity. She left money locally (to pensioners, and the poor, and Female Clubs), and to institutions (both nationally and to Bristol branches) like the Anti-Slavery Society |
Literary responses | Hannah More | Frances Boscawen
planted people in the audience briefed to lead the applause. The audience in fact loved the play, and its low number of performances is ascribed by HM
's biographer M. G. Jones
to... |
Textual Production | Hannah More | HM
's Sensibility (a poem addressed to Frances Boscawen
) appeared in print together with her Sacred Dramas, by March 1782. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 53 (1782): 199 Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press. 188 |
Literary responses | Hannah More | |
Publishing | Hannah More | By 23 July 1794, following the appearance of Paine's The Age of Reason, Porteus was urging More to write on the evidences of Christianity in the style of her Village Politics. She declined... |
Timeline
19 August 1775: Exactly three months after the battle of...
National or international item
19 August 1775
Exactly three months after the battle of Lexington, bluestocking Frances Boscawen
, still eaten up with anxiety for her only surviving son, demanded rhetorically whether the colonies would, when destroyed, yield either taxes or traffic?
Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press.
190
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