Soon after her husband's death, obscene libels (bearing a political subtext) began to appear against AD
. William Combe
led the way in a couplet satire, The First of April; or, The Triumphs of Folly...
Publishing
Elizabeth Hands
The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed
. It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies...
Residence
Janet Schaw
She travelled with her brother Alexander
, heading for his post on St Kitts; she may have intended to live with him there (having no male relations left at home since her father's death)...
Textual Production
Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore
The Universal Register (later The Times) printed a letter from Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
, to Lord Mansfield
, the Chief Justice, of 10 November, before her recent abduction by her estranged husband
.
Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton, 2006.
94 and n1
Violence
Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore
His various hired accomplices, some dressed as constables, brandished at her servants a warrant for their arrest (obtained by bribery), ordered her coachman off his coach at pistol-point while she was in a shop, and...
Timeline
26 March 1768: Lord Baltimore (Frederick, the sixth baron,...
22 June 1772: Chief Justice Lord Mansfield ruled (in the...
National or international item
22 June 1772
Chief Justice Lord Mansfield
ruled (in the case of James Somerset
) that English law did not allow a slave-owner the right to remove a slave by force from Britain.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
437
Boswell, James, 1740 - 1795. Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Editors Hill, George Birkbeck and Laurence Fitzroy Powell, Clarendon, 1934, 6 vols.