Sedgwick, Romney, editor. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1715-1754. 1970, http://www.histparl.ac.uk/about/publications/1715-1754.
Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741)
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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. 1970, http://www.histparl.ac.uk/about/publications/1715-1754. Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741) |
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. 1737. |
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... |
Other Life Event | Mary Barber | Charged with scandalising and vilifying the king and government (George II
and Sir Robert Walpole
), she was out on bail on 2 February. The accusation (for which the penalty ranged from a fine... |
Publishing | Mary Barber | He concluded, let Mrs Howard
know that I recommend you to the Queen
, qtd. in Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, Vol. xviii , 1999, pp. 155-74. 170 |
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 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. Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of. Emma. T. Hookham, 1773, 3 vols. 1: 66 |
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, 1940. 182 |
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... |
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