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Wealth and Poverty | Catharine Trotter | Both Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
, and Gilbert Burnet
were concerned in the payment of CT
's mother's pension, restored under Queen Anne
. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate. 4 |
Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | She had been working on it for two years, and saw it as an attempt to reform the stage. Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang. 49, 61 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Smythies | The novel offers in passing an amusing catalogue of an old-fashioned library, whose first items are heroic romances like Ibraham; Cassandra; Cleopatra [by Madeleine de Scudéry
and Gauthier de La Calprenède
]. Several... |
politics | Lady Rachel Russell | Always attentive to the undercurrents of political behaviour (she reported the demeanour of Elizabeth Cellier
in the pillory in a tone that sounds sympathetic although they were on different sides of the party divide), LRR |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | The other novels in the series are The Three Crowns (1965), about William of Orange
; The Haunted Sisters (1966), about Mary
, who marries William and reigns jointly with him in England, and Anne |
Friends, Associates | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | She now sought the friendship of those in political power, like James Craggs
, Charlotte Clayton
, and members of the royal family. But she was closest to outsiders like Lady Stafford
(an almost certainly... |
Friends, Associates | Mary, Countess Cowper | MCC
made some good friends at Court. She was particularly fond of Charlotte Clayton (later Lady Sundon)
. Her close relationship with |
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 | Her husband had also kept a political diary for some years. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William, first Earl Cowper |
Textual Production | Delarivier Manley | The anonymous Secret History of Queen Zarah
, and the Zarazians; being a Looking-Glass for —— In the Kingdom of Albigion may possibly be DM
's first political scandal fiction—or it might not be hers at all. Manley, Delarivier. “Editorial Materials”. A Woman of No Character: An Autobiography of Mrs Manley, edited by Fidelis Morgan, Faber, p. various pages. 143 |
Textual Production | Delarivier Manley | The secret history Queen Zarah, possibly by DM
, was reprinted to cash in on the notoriety both of the New Atalantis and of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
. It was advertised in the... |
Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | Queen Zarah purports to be translated, not from French but from Italian. In it England is Albigion. The critical preface is in fact a translation of part of Morvan de Bellegarde
's Lettres curieuses... |
Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | The New Atalantis is crammed with offensive personal attacks on individuals (women as well as men); most though not all of them pertain to the misuse of political or sexual power. Particularly notorious is the... |
Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | A series of various keys attached to later editions fed curiosity about the originals of DM
's portraits, without actually giving very much away. Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii. xv |
Wealth and Poverty | Charlotte Lennox | CL
, not her husband, seems to have been always the family bread-winner, and she was always struggling with poverty. The Duchess of Newcastle
(a grand-daughter of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
) helped her with... |
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