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.
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...
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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.
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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...