John Churchill first Duke of Marlborough

Standard Name: Marlborough, John Churchill,,, first Duke of

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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 ...
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),
Piers, Sarah, Lady. George for Britain. A Poem. Bernard Lintott, 1714.
12
faction, and rebellion (imaged as...
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, 1940.
70, 78, 65, 80-1
losing weight (some collops) while in...
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...

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