Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Haywood | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Boyd | This poem opens, with Boyd's typical energy and oddity, on a gloomy evening with fog, gales, rain, skies ablaze with meteors, and ravens (perhaps the symbolic ones from the Tower of London) behaving oddly... |
Textual Production | Grisell Murray | Few of GM
's letters survive, but in winter 1737-8 she was writing to her uncle Alexander, Earl of Marchmont
(the little brother Sandy of her memoir about her mother). Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie. 38 |
Textual Production | Laetitia Pilkington | LP
published a second pamphlet, the ironically-titled An Apology for the Minister. Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., University of Georgia Press. 2: 550 |
Textual Production | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Frances, Lady Hertford
, kept a fragmentary political journal coinciding with the end of Robert Walpole
's long tenure of power as Prime Minister. Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan. 182 |
Textual Production | Delarivier Manley | Curll had already twice attempted to cash in on DM
's success: first with The New Atalantis for the Year 1713 and then in early 1715 by advertising The German Atalantis. Written by a Lady... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Boyd | After the death of Queen Caroline
, EB
addressed a poem on this event to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole
: The Vision; or, The Royal Mourners, A Poem. Boyd, Elizabeth. The Vision; or, The Royal Mourners. |
Textual Features | Mary, Countess Cowper | Of a journey by water from Hampton Court in Middlesex to London on a wonderfully fine October day, she writes: Nothing in the World could be pleasanter than the Passage, nor give One a better... |
Textual Features | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | The feelings of this Emma are all in extremes. During her early passion she quotes Frances Greville
on the pains of sensibility. Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire,. Emma. T. Hookham. 1: 66 |
Textual Features | Sarah Green | SG
's preface puts her cards on the table as a political and social conservative. It says Reform, which seems now to be the present order of the day, Green, Sarah. The Reformist!!! A Serio-Comic Political Novel. Minerva Press for A. K. Newman and Co. 1: i |
Publishing | Mary Barber | He concluded, let Mrs Howard
know that I recommend you to the Queen
, Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, Vol. xviii , pp. 155-74. 170 |
politics | Mary Caesar | By this time his former Jacobite associates were treating him with some suspicion because they feared that financial need was causing him to curry favour with Robert Walpole
's government. Sedgwick, Romney, editor. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1715-1754. http://www.histparl.ac.uk/about/publications/1715-1754. Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741) |
politics | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | A British ship had, said the Genoese, violated their neutrality by firing on a small boat suspected of being a smuggler. Each side took hostages, and the affair escalated. Lady Mary mobilised her contacts and... |
politics | Mary Chandler | MC
was never oppositional in her politics. She supported the Hanoverian monarchy and made no mention, either laudatory or critical, of the government of Sir Robert Walpole
. Shuttleton, David. “Mary Chandler’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Description of Bath</span> (1733): the poetic topographies of an Augustan tradeswoman”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 3, pp. 447-67. 451 |
politics | Mary, Countess Cowper | The Whig party underwent various travails during MCC
's time in politics. In December 1716 and April 1717, when Lord Townshend
(brother-in-law of Robert Walpole
) was dismissed first from one and then from another... |
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