36 results for smallpox for Health

Fanny Kemble

Depression and Smallpox

Bathsheba Bowers

Smallpox

Caroline Bowles

Smallpox

Anne Bradstreet

Smallpox

Frances Browne

Smallpox

Mary Shelley

MS contracted smallpox while visiting Paris; but she survived.
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
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Sarah Scott

Sarah Robinson (later SS ) contracted a severe case of smallpox, which left her with noticeable scarring.
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, p. ix - xlv.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

LMWM was dangerously ill with smallpox.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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Susanna Blamire

She survived a bout of smallpox in her youth which left her somewhat marked.

Catharine Burton

At the age of sixteen CB survived an attack of smallpox, but the year after that she fell seriously ill again (having just been practising severe religious abstinence). She was ill for seven years, with all kinds of symptoms including giddiness, spots on the skin, stomach pains, failure of appetite, shaking fits, and, she says, her bones moving out of their proper places. Her account of the remedies used on her is painfully vivid: bitter potions, sweats, vomits, bleeding, and Spanish flies,
Burton, Catharine. An English Carmelite: The Life of Catharine Burton. Editors Hunter, Thomas and Henry James Coleridge, Burns and Oates, 1876.
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as well as vinegar on her blisters.
Burton, Catharine. An English Carmelite: The Life of Catharine Burton. Editors Hunter, Thomas and Henry James Coleridge, Burns and Oates, 1876.
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She recovered immediately when she vowed to become a nun, and found that, for instance, her previously rigid fingers were now pliable.
Burton, Catharine. An English Carmelite: The Life of Catharine Burton. Editors Hunter, Thomas and Henry James Coleridge, Burns and Oates, 1876.
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She therefore attributed her cure to a miracle, and thought all I could do for God too little.
Burton, Catharine. An English Carmelite: The Life of Catharine Burton. Editors Hunter, Thomas and Henry James Coleridge, Burns and Oates, 1876.
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It does not appear that she was ever ill again, unless perhaps trivially, until shortly before her death.
Grundy, Isobel. “Women’s History? Writings by English Nuns”. Women, Writing, History 1640-1740, edited by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, Batsford and University of Georgia Press, 1992, pp. 126-38.
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Lady Anne Clifford

LAC , along with her daughter Margaret, was ill with smallpox during her husband's last illness, and they were both unable to visit him. Although she survived the illness, it permanently scarred her face.
Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997.
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An Collins

Unspecified illnesses coming one after another kept her housebound for years. Passages in her poems suggest that she was disabled in some way and possibly disfigured (by, for instance, smallpox).

Anne Conway

AC suffered a severe fever before the age of twelve, which seems to have brought on a tendency to excruciating headaches. These (probably migraine) recurred throughout her life, so often as to be almost permanent. Her all-round health, too, was fragile,
Nicolson, Marjorie Hope, and Anne Conway. “Prologue”. The Conway Letters, edited by Sarah Hutton and Sarah Hutton, Clarendon Press, 1992, p. xxiii - xxix.
xxvii and n6
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992.
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and the medical treatments she underwent for her headaches sound in themselves enough to ensure ill-health. She went down with smallpox shortly after her only child died of it.
Hutton, Sarah. Anne Conway: A Woman Philosopher. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Queen Elizabeth I

QEI suffered an attack of smallpox which she barely survived. The question of the succession loomed, and Burghley actually wrote a memo instructing the Privy Council , in the event of her death, to appoint the next monarch.
Gaskill, Malcolm. “Dining with Ivan the Terrible”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 3, 8 Feb. 2018, pp. 37-8.
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Katharine Evans

Soon after the women's imprisonment they were so badly stung by mosquitoes while asleep at night that their faces became as unrecognisably swollen as if they had smallpox.
Evans, Katharine, and Sarah Chevers. This is a Short Relation of some of the Cruel Sufferings. Robert Wilson, 1662.
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Their health suffered severely from other factors, such as heat and hunger-strikes, and each one was several times near death.

Mehetabel Wright

The Wesley family suffered from smallpox.
Wesley, Susanna. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings. Editor Wallace, Charles, Jr, Oxford University Press, 1997.
10

Anne Wharton

She was said to have both smallpox (which her sister had survived four months before, too early to pass it to her directly) and measles.
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124.
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Alice Thornton

She mentions having measles, and two attacks of smallpox (which would mean that one of them must have been chickenpox).
Anselment, Raymond A. “Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Sources of Alice Thornton’s Life”. SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Vol.
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, No. 1, 2005, pp. 135-55.
154n7
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
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Lady Arbella Stuart

She had survived a bout of smallpox about eighteen months before this.

Catherine Sinclair

CS 's face was permanently scarred by her father's amateur smallpox inoculation. Her great-niece Lucy Walford, however, felt very strongly that this fact pushed her to develop her talents and personality, making her a universal favourite.
Walford, Lucy. Recollections of a Scottish Novelist. Williams and Norgate, 1910, xi, 317 pp.
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Sir Philip Sidney

As a boy Philip survived an attack of smallpox that left him badly scarred—a fact not evident from the paintings of him.

Sarah Savage

SS was attacked by smallpox in 1688, but survived. As she grew older her sight deteriorated until she could not read a word without glasses (which made her consider that she ought to spend more time in prayer and meditation instead of reading).
Williams, Sir John Bickerton, and Sarah Savage. Memoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Savage. 4th ed., Holdsworth and Ball, 1829.
127

Lady Rachel Russell

She herself suffered an attack of measles the same year as her miscarriage, and one of smallpox in 1660.

Laetitia Pilkington

LP survived smallpox as a small child.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., Jr, University of Georgia Press, 1997, 2 vols.
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Dorothy Osborne

DO , now in London to prepare for her wedding to Sir William Temple , was ill with smallpox.
Osborne, Dorothy. The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple. Editor Smith, G. C. Moore, Clarendon Press, 1928.
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