Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., University of Georgia Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Horace Walpole | He was the youngest son of statesman Sir Robert Walpole
, though rumour said he was actually fathered by Carr, Lord Hervey
(a son of the Earl of Bristol), who died as a young man. |
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 |
Occupation | Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield | From the age of twenty he held a positon at Court and a seat in Parliament
. After becoming an earl he served in the Privy Council
and as British ambassador at The Hague... |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | She now sought the friendship of those in political power, like James Craggs
, Charlotte Clayton
, and members of the royal family. But she was closest to outsiders like Lady Stafford
(an almost certainly... |
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... |
Cultural formation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | She writes occasionally like an Anglican
, more often like a Deist or sceptic, and frequently as an anti-Catholic. In politics she was a pro-Robert Walpole
Whig. |
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... |
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 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Macaulay | CM
's father, John Sawbridge, was a landowner, and in politics an anti-Walpole
Whig. After his wife's death he retired to a secluded life. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 7, 8 |
Dedications | Eliza Haywood | EH
dedicated to Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
, a major critique, with her name, of Sir Robert Walpole
's Prime Ministership: the satirical fiction Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 347-50 Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press. 177 Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction”. Adventures of Eovaai, edited by Earla Wilputte, Broadview, pp. 7-40. 45n1 |
Occupation | Eliza Haywood | This was Fielding's last production. Next day Sir Robert Walpole
introduced into parliament
the Licensing Act
, which killed this company and EH
's stage career. 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. |
politics | Eliza Haywood | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Haywood |
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