Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, p. i - cxxxviii.
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Literary responses | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | Walpole
thought this work careless and incorrect, but there are very pretty things in it. Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, p. i - cxxxviii. xx |
Publishing | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | She dedicated it to her correspondent, the Margrave
, saying that she exposes her letters to the malice of my enemies, without reserve, merely to oblige many of my friends. Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople. G. G. J. and J. Robinson. Journery prelims 4 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grace Elliott | It was GE
's fairly short-lived affair with Arthur Annesley, Viscount Valentia
(later Earl of Mountnorris), which caused her divorce; his was the only name of a lover mentioned during her marriage—as it was in... |
Residence | Ruth Fainlight | The house, reached by a steep cart-track with hairpin bends, stood in an olive grove with a grapevine over the door. RF
went back to England the following autumn, and was still there when Sillitoe... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny | FNBA
's father, Thomas Manners
, first Earl of Rutland, was one of the peers who tried Anne Boleyn
for treason. He went on to hold various distinguished official positions. He died on 20 September... |
Literary responses | Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny | Her prayers became publicly well-known through Thomas Bentley
's printing of fifty of them, some long, in his Monument of Matrones in 1582 under the title The Praiers made by the right Honourable Ladie Frances... |
Cultural formation | Thomas Gray | Apart from his abusive father, another vital factor in TG
's life was his homosexuality, which has been freely discussed by scholars only fairly recently. This informed his early friendships with Richard West
and Horace Walpole |
Travel | Thomas Gray | The great adventure of Gray's life was his accompanying Horace Walpole
on the Grand Tour, 1739-41. Each young man left a vivid description of their passage over the Alps into Italy. Their time abroad... |
Friends, Associates | Thomas Gray | Walpole
, son of the Prime Minister, had an ample allowance, as the middle-class Gray did not. Walpole was a socialite who delighted in the pleasures of Italy, and Gray felt neglected. Their subsequent estrangement... |
Reception | Elizabeth Griffith | This was EG
's least successful play. Both in the theatre and in print, responses sound designed to put an impudent female newcomer in her place. Bookseller Tom Davies
claimed there was a positive cabal... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Gunning | It was known that Lorne had been in the running before Blandford, who was financially and socially a better catch. Gossips speculated. Love-letters from Blandford, and a letter from the Duke of Marlborough welcoming EG |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Harcourt | MH
's brother-in-law, Simon Harcourt, later the second earl
, was married to Elizabeth
, née Vernon, 1746-1826, who was a life-writer (like Mary), a social poet, and a collector of manuscript verse. This couple... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Hervey | They were married at St George's, Hanover Square, London. He was the natural son of Thomas Hervey, who in turn was one of the eight children of John, Lord Hervey
. Hervey, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The History of Ned Evans (1796), edited by Helena Kelly, Pickering and Chatto, p. vii - xxii. viii Beckford, William. Life at Fonthill, 1807-1822, with Interludes in Paris and London. Editor Alexander, Boyd, Rupert Hart-Davis. 202n2 |
Residence | Elizabeth Hervey | EH
was living at Brussels by 1781. In autumn 1789 she and her sons had returned from abroad and were living at Braziers Park near Ipsden in Oxfordshire, a house in the playfully Gothic... |
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