Robert Harley first Earl of Oxford

His great-great-father, Cesare Adelmare , had migrated from Italy to England and become physician to Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I . Charles Caesar, though later a devoted husband, was said at...

Tory politician Robert Harley was committed to the Tollet s' house in the Tower of London, where ET became well acquainted with him.

The group comprised both authors and patrons. Other members were Dr John Arbuthnot , Thomas Parnell , and Lords Oxford and Bolingbroke . The writers among the club sent doggerel invitations to their meetings to...

MC shared her husband's network of high-level connections in circles of Jacobites and Jacobite sympathisers. She was a friend of the writers Pope , Prior , Swift , and Mary Barber , and of the...

Valerie Rumbold noted the allusions and double meanings with which MC offered the pleasures of complicity and solidarity to imagined readers (even though it seems likely that her husband was the only person to read...

In 1720 MC 's husband was arguing that a Stuart restoration could not be accomplished, and ought not to be attempted, without foreign aid. By March 1722, however, the planning stage of the Atterbury plot...

This book is often seen as a sequel, and it retails the same type of scandal as the New Atalantis, but without the supernatural mediating characters. It too purports to be translated: this time...

DM writes of herself as an expert in love, despite what she describes as her unalluring appearance. She presents herself, however, through men's eyes and as a topic of male gossip (in contrast with the...

ET 's poems were circulating at least by 1714, in manuscript, or in the opportunistic publications of others, or both. After her death William Duncombe printed one of her imitations of odes by Horace which...

It was dedicated to Lord Peterborough , from whom DM sought a pension the following year. She also sent a copy to Robert Harley , who waited four years before responding with a gift of fifty pounds.

DM wrote to Robert Harley on the very day that she dated her Translator's Preface to Rivella with proposals for another full-length political allegory of the type of the New Atalantis.

The occasion for this six-penny pamphlet was de Guiscard 's trial for attempted murder of the Prime Minister, Robert Harley . Swift wrote the first page and DMcook'd it into completion.

She describes her motivation like this: My Begining to wright was for amusement, when maloncarly on the Death of Our Great Friend Treasurr Oxford , and the Absence of Mr Caesar , to whom I...

MC begins with a commemorative account of the dealings of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (First Lord of the Treasury under Queen Anne ), with her husband, Charles Caesar . It was news of...