Du Bois, Dorothea. Poems on Several Occasions. Printed for the author.
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Literary Setting | Daphne Du Maurier | The novel was set during the period when King George III
was suffering from mental incapacity, and his eldest son
was Regent.Mary Anne Clarke
, who was mistress to the king's second son, was... |
Dedications | Dorothea Du Bois | DDB
published at Dublin, by subscription and dedicated to the king
, Poems on Several Occasions, by a Lady of Quality. Du Bois, Dorothea. Poems on Several Occasions. Printed for the author. title-page |
Friends, Associates | Mary Delany | Back in England in her second widowhood, MD
was a frequent visitor to her lifelong, very close friend the Duchess of Portland
. The duchess, an amateur scientist of unusual talent and achievement, brought MD |
Friends, Associates | Mary Delany | MD
continued to make new friends late in life (though she was said to have declined to meet Hester Thrale
). Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 60 |
Residence | Mary Delany | In the early years of her second widowhood, MD
took to staying half the year with the Duchess of Portland
at her estate at Bulstrode Park in Buckinghamshire. Linney, Verna. “A Passion for Art, a Passion for Botany: Mary Delany and her Floral ’Mosaiks’”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol. 1 , pp. 203-35. 213, 216 |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Delany | After Margaret, Duchess of Portland, died in 1785, MD
must have felt the pinch. She had not taken regular money from her friend, but her long stays in the hospitable household at Bulstrode must have... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | |
Occupation | Anne Damer | AD
was not only a diarist, novelist, and amateur actress: she became, from the 1780s, a successful and even famous sculptor. Andrew Elfenbein
notes the application to her of such terms as female genius and... |
Textual Production | Anne Damer | AD
's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they... |
Textual Features | Margaret Croker | |
Textual Production | Mary Collier | MC
, aged seventy-one, wrote the last datable poem in her volume Poems, on Several Occasions: On the Marriage of George the Third. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under George III |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Cobbold | The frontispiece features a portrait of the cookery writer Hannah Glasse
(drawn by EC
herself), who is heroicised in the text. This poem answers The Sovereign, a poem by Charles Small Pybus
, addressed... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Chatterton | GC
's uncle William Morton Pitt
was a Member of Parliament representing Dorset for nearly fifty years. He worked fervently on behalf of the poor, and lobbied constantly for improved prison conditions. He also regularly... |
Other Life Event | Frances Burney | FB
, walking on doctor's orders in Kew Gardens and understanding that the madking
was safely elsewhere, was accosted by him and (still following orders) ran away. Burney, Frances. Journals and Letters. Editors Sabor, Peter and Lars E. Troide, Penguin. 280ff |
Material Conditions of Writing | Frances Burney | FB
began on her first tragedy, Edwy and Elgiva, as royal Keeper of the Robes during the most frightening phase of the king
's illness. Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press. 179 |
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