John Churchill first Duke of Marlborough

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

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1986.
49, 61
Congreve sent her detailed suggestions for revision, which sought to improve not her literary...
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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