Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan.
70, 78, 65, 80-1
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | To her mother she sends plants propagated by layering, and much fascinating social detail: the Duke of Marlborough
's funeral, several coach accidents, Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan. 70, 78, 65, 80-1 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte McCarthy | The poems include reworkings of pastoral, occasional poems (one of them inscribed in a volume belonging to a friend), and comment on public affairs. The opening three, addressed to Chloe, are conventional in tone... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah, Lady Piers | But she moves on from celebration to warning: the human race is fallen, and a ruler needs to guard against ambition (This second Paradise, oh hazard not), Sarah, Lady Piers,. George for Britain. A Poem. Bernard Lintott. 12 |
Textual Production | Penelope Aubin | |
Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | CT
published On His Grace the Duke of Marlborough
, A Poem, this time celebrating his victory of Ramillies in present-day Belgium on 12 May Old Style (23 May New Style) this year. Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. |
Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | She had been working on it for two years, and saw it as an attempt to reform the stage. Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang. 49, 61 |
Textual Production | Sarah Fyge | SF
wrote a verse address to the Duke of Marlborough
, which seems not to have been printed. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Textual Production | Delarivier Manley | DM
attacked the Whigs again in the ironical The Duke of M——h
's Vindication . . . and A Learned Comment on Dr. Hare
's Excellent Sermon Preach'd before the Duke of Marlborough. Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii. xvii McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 279 and n112 |
Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Throughout the 1720 LMWM
regularly responded in poetry to events in her social circle. She wrote on an alleged incident of attempted rape; on the deaths of the Duke of Marlborough
, William Congreve
... |
Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | CT
published A Poem on His Grace the Duke of Marlborough
's return from his German Expedition. Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Boyd | |
Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | Queen Zarah purports to be translated, not from French but from Italian. In it England is Albigion. The critical preface is in fact a translation of part of Morvan de Bellegarde
's Lettres curieuses... |
Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | The New Atalantis is crammed with offensive personal attacks on individuals (women as well as men); most though not all of them pertain to the misuse of political or sexual power. Particularly notorious is the... |
politics | Mary, Countess Cowper | The Whig party underwent various travails during MCC
's time in politics. In December 1716 and April 1717, when Lord Townshend
(brother-in-law of Robert Walpole
) was dismissed first from one and then from another... |
Literary Setting | Eliza Haywood | EH
's preface to this epistolary novel presents herself as the (plural) Editors of actual letters. Her hero's name (Colonel Horatio M——s or Manners) and descent (from the late Duke of R—l—d) tie him and... |
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