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.
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
Standard Name: Marlborough, Sarah Churchill,,, Duchess of
Used Form: Queen Zarah
Used Form: Sarah Jennings, (later Duchess of Marlborough)
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Elizabeth Boyd | The bride, grand-daughter of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough
, brought immense wealth with her; the groom became Duke of Bedford within a couple of years. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Boyd | |
Literary Setting | Mary Boyle | MB
here recounts the story, set during the final days of James II
's reign, of Mary Savile, a fictional maid of honour toMary of Modena
, James's wife (whose actual maids of honour... |
Textual Features | Frances Brooke | Brooke's advertisement to volume 3 says she gave up her plan for an essay on the writing of history, and settled instead on using notes to demonstrate how this work is, as all history ought... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Burnet | EB
's friendship with Sarah Churchill, later Duchess of Marlborough
(like that with her future husband, Gilbert Burnet
, and his second wife, Mary
), dated back to the years when they were all in... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Burnet | |
Family and Intimate relationships | William Congreve | Congreve's daughter therefore grew up with the name and identity of Mary Godolphin
, from her supposed and legal father. (Henrietta's title, held in her own right of descent from her famous father, was not... |
Dedications | Elizabeth Cooper | EC
called this book the first publick Tryal of my Muse. Cooper, Elizabeth. The Rival Widows. T. Woodward. v |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana Spencer
married (in the parish church at Wimbledon near London, on her seventeenth birthday) the Duke of Devonshire
. The Complete Peerage gives the date as 5 June. Wimbledon Park (since destroyed) was one... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Through her father, Georgiana was a great-great-granddaughter of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough
. |
Dedications | Eliza Haywood | EH
dedicated to Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
, a major critique, with her name, of Sir Robert Walpole
's Prime Ministership: the satirical fiction Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 347-50 Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press. 177 Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction”. Adventures of Eovaai, edited by Earla Wilputte, Broadview, pp. 7-40. 45n1 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Jenkins | The ten women here share varying degrees and varying combinations of sexual, political, or literary notoriety. Two of them—Elizabeth Inchbald
and Lady Blessington
—hold the status of professional authors. Two more—Becky Wells (whom... |
Reception | Mary Jones | In this month MJ
's ballad was set to music by a Mr Howard (probably Samuel Howard
). Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. (1742) 12: 101 |
Occupation | Anne Killigrew | She became, along with Anne Kingsmill (later Anne Finch)
and Sarah Jennings (later Duchess of Marlborough)
, a Maid of Honour to Mary of Modena
(then Duchess of York). Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago. 299 |
Friends, Associates | Anne Killigrew | Evidence about AK
's friends and contacts is sketchy, but she presumably knew well her fellow maids of honour Anne Kingsmill
and Sarah Jennings
, who later became, respectively, a distinguished poet and a powerful... |
Timeline
13 August 1704: Marlborough and Prince Eugene wiped out the...
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13 August 1704
2 April 1705: Bernard Mandeville published The Grumbling...
Writing climate item
2 April 1705
9 June 1705 : John Vanbrugh was officially appointed architect,...
Building item
9 June 1705
John Vanbrugh
was officially appointed architect, with the assistance of Nicholas Hawksmoor
, to build Blenheim Palace at Woodstock in Oxfordshire as a national thank-offering to the Duke of Marlborough
.
3 April 1708: Arthur Maynwaring mentioned to Sarah, Duchess...
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3 April 1708
Arthur Maynwaring
mentioned to Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
, having used a letter from her as the basis for his Advice to the Electors of Great Britain.
5 October 1710: A Whig periodical entitled the Medley was...
Writing climate item
5 October 1710
A Whig periodical entitled the Medley was launched to combat the Tory Examiner; it was probably the work of Arthur Maynwaring
and possibly of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
.
18 January 1711: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, brought her...
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18 January 1711
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
, brought her trial of wills with Queen Anne
to an end by indignantly returning her key of office.
August 1720: South Sea shares reached £1,000, having stood...
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August 1720
South Sea shares reached £1,000, having stood at £100 in January.
By 6 April 1742: An Account of the Conduct of Sarah Duchess...
Women writers item
By 6 April 1742
An Account of the Conduct of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, a politicalapologia and attack on her enemies composed by her over almost forty years with various helpers, appeared a few weeks after Prime Minister...
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