Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
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Standard Name: Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish,,, Duchess of
Birth Name: Georgiana Spencer
Styled: Lady Georgiana Spencer
Married Name: Lady Georgiana Cavendish
Titled: Lady Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Pseudonym: A Young Lady
Nickname: The Rat
An occasional or amateur author during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, wrote in a number of genres: poetry, diaries, travel writings, letters, and possibly two novels. Much of her work remains unpublished and her canon, both in prose and poetry, is far from certain.
Their second daughter, Sarah known as Selina
, taught the younger ones and also some neighbour children.
Yarde, Doris M. Sarah Trimmer of Brentford and her Children, with Some of her Early Writings 1780-1786. Hounslow and District History Society.
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She later worked for as governess in the household of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, and later...
Family and Intimate relationships
Harriette Wilson
Some months before her twentieth birthday, HW
fell in love at first sight with Lord John Ponsonby
(a relation of the famous Duchess of Devonshire
and cousin of Lady Caroline Lamb
), who became second...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Lady Elizabeth Foster
became the friend of the current Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana
, and of the Duke
; very soon the three were inseparable.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins.
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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.
Friends, Associates
Charlotte Smith
CS
was a friend at least from 1787, but more probably from childhood, with the poet Henrietta O'Neill
(who married in 1777). She visited her at the O'Neills' London house at least twice, and through...
Friends, Associates
Maria Callcott
In Richmond and elsewhere MC
met emigrés fleeing the French Revolution. She also met a number of women who wrote: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, Mary
and Agnes Berry
, and Anne Damer
. In...
Though CH
recorded in summer 1774 that she had lost her only female acquaintance (apparently because her work for her brother left her no time for social life), she later met Charles
and Frances Burney
Friends, Associates
Maria Riddell
Angus Macnaghten voices the belief that MRhad few women friends (he excepts Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
) and that women were scared off by her erudition. He may, however, have been misled by women's...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sarah Fielding
Critic Carolyn Woodward
has noted (besides this novel's picture of a community of women in Protestant-nunnery style) a general resemblance between its plot and that of The Sylph (probably by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
), 1778.
Woodward, Carolyn. Email about Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and Sarah Fielding to Isobel Grundy.
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Bonhote
She now intends, for the benefit of her readers, to do something new and to write of life after marriage, since that too has its problems. She aims to be natural, not marvellous. Olivia (after...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mariana Starke
Her preface says the translation was first suggested to her by the dowager Lady Spencer
(mother of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
), whom she met in Italy; Lady Spencer also persuaded to her to publish...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
She here turns to use some of the research she had done with the intention of writing a non-fictional study of Belgium (only recently constituted as a nation) and its politics, and a guide-book element...
Leisure and Society
Anne Damer
AD
was often a subject for other artists. Sometime before 1775 Daniel Gardner
painted an unusual fancy picture of her, with her friends Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
(a particularly frequent sitter on account of her...
Literary responses
Dorothy Wellesley
Yeats
admired this volume for its explorations of the picturesque, for its love . . . for undisturbed Nature, a hatred for the abstract, the mechanical, the invented, and for an intensity which he saw...
