Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Wealth and Poverty | Mary Robinson | At the time that the prince approached MR
(with large money offers as well as emotional declarations) she was £7,000 in debt. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 13: 34 |
Travel | Anne Plumptre | Taking advantage of the new freedom of English people to visit post-Revolutionary France, she joined forces with John
and Amelia Opie
to travel first to Paris. She stayed there for eight months (not enough... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Gore | Historical personages, from the Prince of Wales
and his mistress Lady Jersey
downwards, do appear in this book. It ends on the death of Charles James Fox
, apostrophised as one of the great and... |
Textual Production | Anne Damer | AD
's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they... |
Textual Production | Grisell Murray | Fifty years after her death, some of the more striking passages Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie. viii |
Textual Production | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, composed for the Duke of Bedford
a poem in praise of Charles James Fox
to be displayed in a temple of Whiggish friendship at Bedford's Woburn estate. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins. 371 |
Textual Production | Catherine Gore | |
Textual Production | Lady Charlotte Bury | LCB
also edited novels by other writers. As the authoress of Flirtation she edited Lady Caroline Scott
's A Marriage in High Life, 1828 (of which another edition appeared in 1836). Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Features | Maria Riddell | MR
's own twenty poems include prefatory verses as editor, written for the occasion. She prints work by the late Henrietta O'Neill
(the well-known Ode to the Poppy), Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire
(St... |
Textual Features | Mary Tighe | Most of MT
's published poems are private, friendship, and domestic pieces, but some have political content. Written in a Copy of Psyche which had been in the library of C. J. Fox rejoices (with... |
Textual Features | Lucille Iremonger | Her opening chapter addresses her own experience, with heartfelt reminiscence about the impact of political campaigning on married life. She sets out to combat the view of the candidate's (later the member's) wife either as... |
politics | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, appeared on the hustings with Charles James Fox
, parliamentary candidate for Westminster, and publicly kissed him. Parliament had been dissolved on 1 September; after the elections, the new... |
politics | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, was instrumental in saving Fox
's ministry during a crisis over the finances of the Prince of Wales
. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins. 118-19 |
politics | Maria Riddell | In June 1795 (the year after reading Godwin
's Political Justice) MR
became involved in a case in which Irish tinkers, threatened with being pressed as vagrants into the British Navy
, had resisted... |
politics | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, again supporting Charles James Fox
in his election campaign, was credited as author of his victory. Foreman, Amanda. “A politician’s politician: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and the Whig party”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, pp. 179-04. 184-7 Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press. 242ff |
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