Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
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Leisure and Society | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | As hostess she entertained a talented and faintly bohemian circle. The Prince of Wales
came to breakfast, but some ladies at the head of society found her not sufficiently respectable to visit. George III
felt... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Ham | On of one of George III
's holidays at Weymouth, he visited EH
's uncle's farm. A sheaf of straw that the King handled as it came from the Thrashing [sic] Machine, was hoisted... |
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 |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | QV
's father, Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent
, was a son of domestic and high-minded parents, George III
and Queen Charlotte
, but since their day the House of Hanover had become renowned for... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Hamilton Robinson | IHR
's father, Charles Walker
, was the local squire and a Justice of the Peace. His father was a former Accountant General to George III
. Summerscale, Kate. Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace. Bloomsbury USA. 5-6 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Scott | Scott had been appointed sub-preceptor in November 1750 to Prince George
, who next year became Prince of Wales. After their marriage, SS
and her husband moved into a house in Leicester Fields, London... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Joanna Baillie | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Kelly | IK
's father, William Fordyce
, was the son of a successful merchant later convicted of kidnapping. The son became a physician and served as an army surgeon (with the rank of captain) and later... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ellis Cornelia Knight | ECK
's father, Sir Joseph Knight
, was a Rear-Admiral of the White squadron. He entered the Royal Navy
at the age of fourteen, needing a profession since his family had lost a considerable amount... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Fanshawe | Her father, John Fanshawe, had a position in the royal household of George III
. He died in 1816. Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 2: 151 |
Dedications | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | The Dublin edition has sixteen pages of close type. In a prefatory Advertisement, MBCL
says she hopes to influence the something in agitation with regard to Ireland Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan,. Verses on the Present State of Ireland. i |
Dedications | Charlotte McCarthy | This too was printed for the Author. Copies cost six shillings. This appears to be the first edition, though the work had been advertised as Now ready for the Press, and will be Publish'd... |
Dedications | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | It is dedicated to the Duchess of Gloucester
, a daughter of George III
who had acquired that title by marriage in 1816. Confusingly, the mother of LMH
's previous dedicee Lady Waldegrave had been... |
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