Frances Anne Lady Crewe

Colburn originally wanted to publish two volumes of tales together; then he agreed to publish The Shipwreck immediately if a second volume could be ready soon after Christmas 1815. He had advertised volume one on...

The Duchess of Devonshire knew virtually everyone in London society. Set apart was the Devonshire House Circle: a clique of wealthy and fashionable Whigs with rakish or bohemian leanings, who even spoke in their...

Lady Crewe , whose two daughters were the pupils concerned, was herself the daughter of the writer Frances Greville , and as Mrs Crewe (before her husband received a peerage in 1806) had been well...

She undertook this work at her father's request. Money was to be raised for a fund set up by Frances Anne Crewe for helping the 6,000 clerical emigrés in England.

Like Frances Burney 's Brief Reflections Relative to the Emigrant French Clergy, this was written for the benefit of Frances Anne Crewe 's fund for relief of French clerical refugees. More expressed the hope...