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Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | When the English court turned Catholic, Lady Powis served as lady-in-waiting to the queen, Mary of Modena
. She was a witness to the birth of the king and queen's baby son
, was appointed... |
Employer | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | Winifred succeeded her mother as a lady-in-waiting to Mary Beatrice of Modena
. While the Jacobite court-in-exile of St Germain was where she primarily worked, she became an expert too on the byzantine routine of... |
Occupation | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | Mary of Modena
had no position to give, though she wrote a letter of advice. Lady Nithsdale offered her services to a potential wife of James Edward
as soon as the existence of such a... |
Wealth and Poverty | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | Winifred Nithsdale spent her first years abroad living on a Jacobite pension, which was augmented by Mary Beatrice of Modena
until the latter's death on 7 May 1718. After years of hand-to-mouth existence, she received... |
Travel | Agnes Strickland | They found plenty to criticise as well as to admire in France. On the track of three Stuart consorts, Henrietta Maria
, Catherine of Braganza
, and Mary of Modena
, they visited Paris and... |
Textual Production | Agnes Strickland | Both sisters were indefatigable researchers. They took as their motto Facts, not Opinions Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus. 62 |
Travel | Elizabeth Strickland | ES
had no reluctance, however, about accompanying Agnes on research trips. The two sisters set out on 3 April 1844, by way of Le Havre and Rouen to visit places around Paris associated with Henrietta Maria |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Lucy Herbert | This was the outcome of the Meal Tub Plot, so called after the container in Elizabeth Cellier
's kitchen where evidence was planted. Lady Powis was then granted bail, and the charges against her... |
Occupation | Lady Lucy Herbert | While at St Germain, LLH
attended the court of Mary Beatrice of Modena
, but it does not appear that she held any official position there as her mother and sister did. Maxwell Stuart, Flora. Lady Nithsdale and the Jacobites. Traquair House. 21 |
Occupation | Anne Finch | |
Anthologization | Anne Finch | While she was still a maid of honour to Mary of Modena
, Anne Kingsmill (later AF
) began circulating her poems in manuscript: some political and religious pieces appeared in miscellanies in this decade... |
Textual Production | Anne Finch | |
Occupation | Elizabeth Cellier | |
Literary Setting | Mary Boyle |
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