Queen's Bench Prison

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Smith
Benjamin Smith was confined in the King's Bench Prison ; CS , his wife, accompanied him in prison for some of that time.
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle, edited by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Oxford University Press, 1971.
xxiii
Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Poems of Charlotte Smith, edited by Stuart Curran, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xix - xxix.
xxi-xxii
Hilbish, Florence. Charlotte Smith, Poet and Novelist. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941.
85-6
Material Conditions of Writing Maria Barrell
Still in the King's Bench Prison , MB published with her name a tragedy, The Captive, which fictionalises her own situation there.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Textual Production Maria Barrell
MB published with her name an indignant pamphlet, British Liberty Vindicated; or, A Delineation of the King's Bench.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Wealth and Poverty Teresia Constantia Phillips
TCP was confined for debt in the Liberties of the King's Bench Prison ; this meant she was not incarcerated, but was also not free to leave a limited area.
Stone, Lawrence. Uncertain Unions. Marriage in England, 1660-1753. Oxford University Press, 1992.
272-3
Wealth and Poverty Maria Barrell
According to another plea by MB to the Commissioners for American Loyalists, she arrived in the King's Bench debtors' prison in London on this day, having been arrested for debt. When she published her...
Wealth and Poverty Lady Eleanor Douglas
LED was again in prison for debt, in what she calls the Queen's Bench.
This, called the King's Bench during LED 's adult lifetime (though it was the Queen's Bench under Elizabeth I), had...

Timeline

January 1768: The radical Political Register celebrated...

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January 1768

The radical Political Register celebrated the learning and political acumen of the chevalier d'Éon, publishing long extracts from his works.
Clark, Anna. “The Chevalier d’Eon and Wilkes: Masculinity and Politics in the Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 19-48.
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