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Friends, Associates | Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan | She was a well-known figure in London cultural circles, particularly that of the Bluestockings. Charles Burney
called her at-home evenings blue conversazioni's and Horace Walpole
called them quite Mazarine-blue. Others specifically mentioned in... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | The leading figures in the movement were Montagu herself (who spent freely in hospitality, and who was later dubbed the Queen of the Bluestockings or Queen of the Blues) and Carter
(the most intellectually... |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke
in Bristol the previous September... |
Leisure and Society | Hannah More | Frances Boscawen
commissioned another portrait of her, by John Opie
(husband of Amelia Opie). Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952. 57 |
Literary responses | Hannah More | Frances Boscawen
planted people in the audience briefed to lead the applause. The audience in fact loved the play, and its low number of performances is ascribed by HM
's biographer M. G. Jones
to... |
Literary responses | Hannah More | |
Literary responses | Ann Yearsley | More
and Elizabeth Montagu
admired AY
as a primitive, untrained writer whose excellence came from nature, not from carefully nurtured ability: as a phenomenon verging on a freak. More's Prefatory Letter to Yearsley's Poems, on... |
Publishing | Helen Maria Williams | The Poems were in two volumes, with HMW
's name in full, published by Rivington and Marshall
, with an engraved frontispiece drawn by Maria Cosway
. Subscribers included the Prince of Wales
(whose name... |
Publishing | Eliza Parsons | She gave her name as Mrs. Parsons on the title-page and signed the dedication with both her names. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 512 |
Publishing | Mary Ann Parker | Her subscribers included many naval and some military personnel, a sprinkling of the nobility, Sir Joseph Banks
and (separately) his wife
, Frances Boscawen
(bluestocking and admiral's widow), Hannah More
, and printer-antiquary John Bowyer Nichols |
Publishing | Susannah Gunning | The title-page of this initially three-volume work calls the authors the Miss Minifies of Fairwater in Somersetshire—thus linking their identity with their rank. Gunning, Susannah, and Margaret Minifie. The Histories of Lady Frances S—,— and Lady Caroline S——. R. and J. Dodsley, 1763, 4 vols. title-page |
Publishing | Isabella Kelly | Subscribers included John Julius Angerstein
, a colonel related to Anne Bannerman
, Jemima Kindersley
's husband, Frances Boscawen
, Mary Champion de Crespigny
, Henrietta Fordyce
, Lord Hawke
, Countess Lonsdale
(the eldest... |
Publishing | Alethea Lewis | AL
's dedication to Sir Edward Littleton
, Member of Parliament for Stafford, praises him in this capacity and as a landlord. Her subscribers include many friends or relations, as well as writers like... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Carter | The book had gone to press in June 1757. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Publishing | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | This novel was published by Hookham
in three volumes, and dedicated to Georgiana's friend Lady Camden
. Its subscription list, in this and the second edition (issued by Hookham in 1787, in two volumes each... |
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