Elizabeth Chudleigh

Standard Name: Chudleigh, Elizabeth

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Family and Intimate relationships Mary Lady Chudleigh
Miss Elizabeth Chudleigh , who became notorious for two upwardly-mobile but bigamous marriages, was MLC 's grand-daughter.
Chudleigh, Mary, Lady. “Introduction”. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh, edited by Margaret J. M. Ezell, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xvii - xxxvi.
xxi n10
names Elizabeth Hervey
  • BirthName: Elizabeth Marsh
  • Married: Harvie; Hervey
  • Pseudonym: The Author of Melissa and Marcia
    Two contemporaries of this Elizabeth Hervey (relations of her second husband) bore the same name. Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire , was...
Publishing Anna Margaretta Larpent
Her various diaries and journals are catalogued as Huntington HM 31201.
Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press, 1998.
379
They have also been microfilmed and a guide has been published as A Woman's View of Drama, 1790-1830: the Diaries of Anna Margaretta...

Timeline

1 May 1749: Elizabeth Chudleigh created a sensation by...

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1 May 1749

Elizabeth Chudleigh created a sensation by appearing at a masquerade in the character of Iphigenia, in a dress so transparent that she was as good as naked.
Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press, 1994.
67

April 1776: Elizabeth Chudleigh was tried for bigamy...

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April 1776

Elizabeth Chudleigh was tried for bigamy in her second marriage, to the late Duke of Kingston : she was found guilty but, her first husband being now a peer, she escaped the punishment of branding...

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