As a teenager Lady Mary Pierrepont formed a circle of friends which included members of the middle and upper classes: Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles (later Lady Oxford)
, Dolly Walpole (later Lady Townshend)
and the...
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Eliza Haywood
Successive editions (extending to an eighth in 1765) expanded from one to four volumes, tracking the expansion of the original, which contained stories for six days in 1722, but for eighteen days in 1731.
Genieys-Kirk, Séverine. “Eliza Haywoods Translation and Dialogic Reading of Madeleine-Angélique Gomezs Journées amusantes (1722-1731)”. Translators, Interpreters, Mediators, edited by Gillian Dow, Peter Lang, 2007, pp. 37-54.
37 and n1
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
From these years date LMWM
's surviving letters to her childhood friend Lady Oxford
.
She had been writing to Lady Oxford for years before this, but the earlier part of the correspondence does not...
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By 4 December 1745: The Young Pretender's Jacobite army arrived...
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By 4 December 1745
The Young Pretender
's Jacobite army arrived at Derby on their march south towards London.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
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Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
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Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.