Real, Hermann J. “’To the Dean’: A New Letter by Mary Barber”. Swift Studies, pp. 17 -26.
Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk
Standard Name: Suffolk, Henrietta Howard,,, Countess of
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Friends, Associates | Mary Barber | To this year belongs one of her only two letters to Swift
that are known to survive, largely taken up with gossip about Lady Suffolk
's leaving her place at Court. |
Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | |
Occupation | John Wilson Croker | JWC
became a lawyer, (moving from Ireland to London after the Act of Union) a Tory
MP, an editor of several eighteenth-century texts (including letters by Lady Hervey
and by Henrietta Howard, Lady Suffolk
)... |
Publishing | Mary Barber | He concluded, let Mrs Howard
know that I recommend you to the Queen
, Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, pp. 155 - 74. 170 |
Timeline
August 1717
Henrietta Howard
, later Lady Suffolk, wrote an introspective memorandum on her own relation to the institution of marriage.