Sir William Yonge

Standard Name: Yonge, Sir William

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Dedications	Eliza Haywood	EH published two novels, The Fatal Secret; or, Constancy in Distress, dedicated to William Yonge (who had just made a huge profit from divorcing his wife ), and The Surprize; or, Constancy Rewarded...
Textual Production	Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford	The circumstances of misattribution are mysterious, but literary historian Michael F. Suarez guesses that Dodsley and William Shenstone deliberately printed this poem as Montagu 's in order to preserve the reputation of the real author...
Textual Production	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu	According to the surviving manuscript, the two women produced their verse responses on the very day that Eleanor Bowes was said (years later, by the cynical Horace Walpole ) to die of the violence of...

The House of Lords began hearing William Yonge 's case for divorcing his wife.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.

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