Mary, Lady Chudleigh,. “Introduction”. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh, edited by Margaret J. M. Ezell, Oxford University Press, p. xvii - xxxvi.
xxi n10
George Ballard
Standard Name: Ballard, George
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Jane Squire | Scholar Thomas Rawlins
wrote to George Ballard
(then working on his collection of women's lives) about the work of JS
: he believed her longitude method to be feasible. He mentioned only obliquely that she... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Roper | MR
's intellectual achievements, together with her father's charisma and the touching story of her heroism and family devotion, made her for centuries a benchmark for commentators on the status of women. George Ballard
set... |
| Literary responses | Damaris Masham | George Ballard
, in compiling his Memoirs of Eminent Ladies, praised the Observations which the Virtuous and excellently knowing LadyDM
made in this book on the Tyrannick Insolence, Oppressive and Monopilizing Tempers of... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | Other grand-daughters subscribed to George Ballard
's Memoirs of Eminent Ladies and supplied family manuscripts to aid his research. |
| Textual Production | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | According to George Ballard
, MLC
left in manuscript occasional poems, imitations and translations of Lucian
(also translated by Lucy Hutchinson
), two tragedies, two operas, and a masque. Mary, Lady Chudleigh,. “Introduction”. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh, edited by Margaret J. M. Ezell, Oxford University Press, p. xvii - xxxvi. xxxv |
| Publishing | Mary Jones | This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange
: Anne, daughter of George II
and the late Queen Caroline
. The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ
's friend Martha Lovelace, later... |
| Textual Production | Constantia Grierson | Mary Barber
and George Ballard
mention an abridged (that is, short or elementary) history of England by CG
; it is not known to have reached print. Literary historian A. C. Elias notes that as... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Elstob | In 1709 (the same year that she published her version of Ælfric
, An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory) EE
began work on a project of female history. Perry, Ruth, and George Ballard. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, Wayne State University Press, pp. 12-48. 25 |
| Reception | Elizabeth Elstob | When George Ballard
met Elstob years later she must have mentioned this unfinished project, for he was soon questioning her about Margaret Roper
and Mary Astell
. Perry, Ruth, and George Ballard. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, Wayne State University Press, pp. 12-48. 25 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Elstob | Her correspondence with George Ballard
shows them eagerly exchanging antiquities and artefacts, and information about the lives of early women writers. |
| Travel | Elizabeth Elstob | |
| Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Elstob | She got as far as renting a house for her school, but it seems that events then overtook her. Since her edition had failed, she had to refund money put up by subscribers, and once... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Elstob | By this time, however, she was acquiring a circle of patrons. She had met Sarah Chapone
, parson's wife and proto-feminist, who this same year published her anonymous, hard-hitting The Hardships of the English Laws... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Elstob | Ralph Thoresby
recorded on 22 January 1709 that EE
had published some composures of her own Thoresby, Ralph. The Diary of Ralph Thoresby. Editor Hunter, Joseph, H. Colburn and R. Bentley. 2: 27 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater | Lady Bridgewater's public reputation rested at first on the epitaph written on her by her husband
, which George Ballard
printed in full in his Memoirs of Eminent Ladies. Travitsky, Betty, and Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater. “Subordination and Authorship: Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton”. Subordination and Authorship: the case of Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton and her &quot:loose papers", Tempe, Ariz., pp. 1-172. 83-5 |
Timeline
23 November 1752: George Ballard dated his preface to Memoirs...
Women writers item
23 November 1752
George Ballard
dated his preface to Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain . . . (better known as Memoirs of Eminent Ladies); it was published that year.
July 1766: Biographium Foemineum. The Female Worthies;...
Building item
July 1766
Biographium Foemineum. The Female Worthies; or, Memoirs of the Most Illustrious Ladies, of all Ages and Nations was anonymously published.
1785: Dialogues Concerning the Ladies, a celebration...
Women writers item
1785
Dialogues Concerning the Ladies, a celebration of famous women, was anonymously published; it borrows from Ballard
's Memoirs of Eminent Ladies.
Texts
Perry, Ruth, and George Ballard. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, Wayne State University Press, 1985, pp. 12-48.
Ballard, George. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain. Printed by W, Jackson, for the author, 1752.
Ballard, George. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain. Editor Perry, Ruth, Wayne State University Press, 1985.
Elstob, Elizabeth, and George Ballard. “Notes”. Ballard MS 64.