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politics | Mary, Countess Cowper | MCC
supported the Whig party, in which her husband, Lord Cowper, was a leading player. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William, first Earl Cowper |
Textual Production | Mary, Countess Cowper | MCC
and her husband
exchanged affectionate letters from before their marriage. Some years before George I
succeeded to the English throne she established contact with his chief minister, Baron Bernstorff
, by letter. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Mary, Countess Cowper | At the turning point of George I
's accession, Lord Cowper
established his position in the new political landscape through A Treatise on the State of Parties (otherwise known as An Impartial History of Parties... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary, Countess Cowper | This document succeeded in its aim: George I
favoured the Whigs throughout his reign, although his naturally autocratic tendencies might well have inclined him more towards the Tories. |
Textual Production | Mary, Countess Cowper | She spared the part covering the first two years, and what she had written for 1720 (mostly the months of April and May). Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Mary, Countess Cowper,. “Introduction”. Diary, edited by Charles Spencer Cowper, John Murray, p. v - xvi. xi, xiv |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary, Countess Cowper | Much of the diary is filled with reports of jockeying for personal power: the names dropped are those of people forming and breaking alliances. By spring 1716 it has become gradually more expansive on topics... |
Occupation | Mary, Countess Cowper | In the distribution of favours that marked King George
's accession, MCC
was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to his daughter-in-law Caroline of Anspach
, now Princess of Wales. Mary, Countess Cowper,. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray. 6-7 |
Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | This play, set in Britain after the imperial Romans had left, deals with the usurpation of a throne (in this case by the tyrant Vortigern
, with allusion to George I
), and features strong... |
Cultural formation | William Law | He became a Church of England
clergyman, but after the accession of George I
he refused to take the oath of allegiance (since he was a Jacobite). This made him a Nonjuror, ineligible for positions... |
Health | Mary Lamb | Another followed an upsetting review of Charles's Specimens in the Quarterly in February 1812, another on her completing her own On Needle-Work in December 1814-February 1815, and another, unusually, only six months later. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 265-6, 276-83 |
Textual Production | Elinor James | In This Day Ought Never to be Forgotten, being the Proclamation Day for Queen Elizabeth, EJ
presented a role-model to the new King George
. The date was that of Elizabeth's accession. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 308 |
Textual Production | Elinor James | In Mrs. James's Thanks to the Lords
and Commons
for their great Sincerity to King George, EJ
again marked an anniversary in national political life and in her career as its interpreter. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 308 |
Textual Features | Elinor James | James's strong admonitory style has much in common with that of religious prophets. She is equally ready to cross swords with Quakers and Dissenters on the one hand and Catholics on the other, to venerate... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Haywood | The subtitle suggests some knowledge of |
Textual Production | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | MADH
issued her first novel, Savile House: An Historical Romance of the Time of George the First, in two volumes under the name Addlestone Hill (a coded reference to her home at Addlestone in... |
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