Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland

In the early years of her second widowhood, MD took to staying half the year with the Duchess of Portland at her estate at Bulstrode Park in Buckinghamshire. She spent her winters...

Again, however, the boarding school idea seems never to have got off the ground. EE left Bath after only about a year, to join the household of the Duchess of Portland at Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire.

The letters of EM 's youth—to the Duchess of Portland and to her sister Sarah Scott —are sparkling, irreverent, and inventive. Some of these were conveyed via Elizabeth Elstob . Her early claim about the...

She probably kept it for far longer than these surviving years; the original may have been destroyed by her grandson. The extant passages, probably first transcribed during her lifetime, are known from an eighteenth-century copy...

LAC was helped with her literary labours by several scribes, notably one Edward Langley . Of the four copies which she dictated and kept at various of her residences, one survives, corrected by herself: in...

At this time her old friend the Duchess of Portland made her an interest-free loan of four hundred pounds which enabled her to buy a house, as well as inviting her to spend every summer...