Frances Boscawen

Standard Name: Boscawen, Frances

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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
Textual Production Charlotte Smith
It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children...
Textual Production Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson
EGF submitted writing to periodicals under the pseudonyms Laura or Arachne. The postscript to Edward Young 's Resignation. In Two Parts, and a Postscript, published in London and Philadelphia in 1764, addressed to...
Textual Production Hannah More
HM 's Sensibility (a poem addressed to Frances Boscawen ) appeared in print together with her Sacred Dramas, by March 1782.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
53 (1782): 199
Critic Harriet Guest says it was influenced by William Hayley 's Triumphs of Temper.
Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press.
188
Wealth and Poverty Hannah More
HM left more than one-third of her estate—over £10,000—to charity. She left money locally (to pensioners, and the poor, and Female Clubs), and to institutions (both nationally and to Bristol branches) like the Anti-Slavery Society

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