Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., University of Georgia Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Frances, Lady Norton | Frances Freke married George Norton
of Abbots Leigh in North Somerset (a house which was famous for having sheltered the disguised fugitive future Charles II
in autumn 1651 after the battle of Worcester). The date... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Lucy Herbert | Lady Powis
, mother of two future writers (Lucy
and Winifred
, then about ten and seven), joined her husband
in the Tower of London, on a charge of Roman Catholic plotting against... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Lucy Herbert | Lucy's father, William Herbert
, owned estates in Wales and the Welsh marches, although much of the family's large properties had been forfeited after they fought for the monarchy in the English Civil War... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Teresia Constantia Phillips | Constantia had as godmother the dowager Duchess of Bolton
, who was an illegitimate grand-daughter of Charles II
through the once-notorious Duke of Monmouth. As a child Constantia was a member of the duchess's household... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laetitia Pilkington | LP
was proud of her mother's descent from Colonel William Meade
(her own great-grandfather), who fought for Charles II
in the Civil War. Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., University of Georgia Press. 2: 363 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Her father, Walter Singer
, a well-to-do wool merchant and a dissenting minister, had been imprisoned at Ilchester for his beliefs under Charles II
(and had met his future wife when she came prison visiting)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater | Of the ten children borne by Elizabeth (both as Lady Brackley and as Lady Bridgewater), seven outlived her although only four seem to have lived long enough to reach modern records: John
, born on... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater | Lionel Cranfield, third Earl of Middlesex
, challenged Lord Bridgewater (who had just been appointed guardian of his niece) to a duel in deliberately insulting language—Billingsgate dialect, Bridgewater called it, from the notoriously... |
Friends, Associates | Catharine Colace Ross | CCR
offered support and concern to Thomas Hog
(a minister near Auldearn on the Moray Firth, who ended up as a royal chaplain to King William
) while he was being persecuted for his... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Jones | MJ
corresponded with Charlotte Lennox
and with publisher Ralph Griffiths
and his wife Isabella
. Her friendship was valued by literary men like Samuel Johnson
, Joseph Spence
, Thomas Warton
, and apparently Bonnell Thornton |
Health | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Bernard Shaw | The Festival Theatre
at Malvern first performed GBS
's Good King Charles
's Golden Days: A History Lesson, a comedy featuring actual historical figures. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | This narrative was apparently planned to fit its six illustrations: portraits of imaginary beauties by Edmund Thomas Parris
(whose work featured also in Gems of Beauty). The novel followed on the heels of Anna Jameson |
Literary Setting | 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... |
Literary Setting | Sarah Green | It opens in France and England during what was in England the interregnum period, and moves onwards into the reign of Charles II
. The heroine writes her story retrospectively in a letter to a... |
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