Berkeley was now twenty-five to her thirty-seven. It seems from the letter she wrote him in French in reply to his proposal that she was much in love, but felt the opposition of the elders...
Material Conditions of Writing
Catherine Talbot
According to Eliza Berkeley
, it was the month before George Berkeley
's marriage that CT
wrote a Song of renunciation which resolves to hide her own pain and wish the best for her beloved's future wife.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Publishing
Dorothea Du Bois
Her subscribers included Lord Annesley
(of yet another branch of her paternal family) and other relations, George Berkeley
and his wife Eliza Berkeley
, the Dowager Countess Charleville
(who had acquired that style only when...
Textual Production
Catherine Talbot
Eliza Berkeley
published in the Gentleman's Magazine her account of the love between her husband
and CT
, with the text of two poems by Talbot from nearly forty years back.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
66 (1796): 631-2
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
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Textual Production
Catherine Talbot
Following the renunciation of her love for George Berkeley
, it seems that CT
wrote a series of at least ten poems of passionate feeling.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990.
The British Library
holds a number of CT
's letters, her journal, the manuscript of Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week, and poems (which, however, are not catalogued under her name). It...