Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | The first-named is George I
's rejected queen
(accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover
was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel... |
Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | MO
published in Blackwoods her Historical Sketches of the Reign of George II, whose subjects include Queen Caroline
(his wife) and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press. 341 |
Textual Production | Grisell Murray | Few of GM
's letters survive, but in winter 1737-8 she was writing to her uncle Alexander, Earl of Marchmont
(the little brother Sandy of her memoir about her mother). Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie. 38 |
politics | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | She frequented both of the incompatible court circles—those of the king and of the Prince
and Princess of Wales
—apparently in search of a power base. |
Textual Features | Charlotte McCarthy | CMC
here uses a jaunty six-line stanza to complain of corrupt politicians. She also uses some scurrility. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Textual Production | Mary, Countess Cowper | She spared the part covering the first two years, and what she had written for 1720 (mostly the months of April and May). Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Mary, Countess Cowper,. “Introduction”. Diary, edited by Charles Spencer Cowper, John Murray, p. v - xvi. xi, xiv |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary, Countess Cowper | Much of the diary is filled with reports of jockeying for personal power: the names dropped are those of people forming and breaking alliances. By spring 1716 it has become gradually more expansive on topics... |
Textual Features | Mary Latter | Here the solitary, sorrowing Muse is roused by beams of light and a seraphic vision announcing that This Day—illustrious George
becomes a Sire! Latter, Mary. A Lyric Ode. C. Bathurst. v |
Dedications | Mary Jones | This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange
: Anne, daughter of George II
and the late Queen Caroline
. The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ
's friend Martha Lovelace, later... |
politics | Eliza Haywood | EH
's political allegiance may have been dictated by the need to make a living, or by taking a satirical view of successive centres of political enthusiasm. She wrote opportunistic satire on George II
while... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Haywood | This magazine has a second supposed author: the parrot, who is male. This creature, born in Java, has seen the world, since its long life has been spent with fifty-five different families successively. Though not... |
Textual Production | Eliza Haywood | In The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania, EH
mounted an anonymous, thinly-disguised attack on the morals and circle of the Prince of Wales, the future George II
... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | The first event she records was an ultimatum from the Prince of Wales
to his father, George II
, whom he enraged by demanding Walpole's removal. She describes how, after Walpole fell, power struggles among... |
Dedications | Mary Davys | This comedy was printed the next month, with an illustration of one of its scenes, and a dedication to Princess Anne
, daughter of the future George II
—a sound Whig choice. Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot. Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xix |
Dedications | Mary Chandler | The British Library
copy is 11630 h. 7. This edition was inscribed to Princess Amelia
(one of George II
's daughters, who had twice visited Bath). Chandler, Mary. A Description of Bath. James Leake. title-page |
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