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
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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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | |
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 , 2001, 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... |
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, 1952. 60 |
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, 1764. title-page |
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... |
Textual Production | Grace Elliott | This story credits Sir David Dundas
as the cause of her writing. He was a friend both to her and to her lover the duc d'Orléans
, and physician both to her and to George III |
Publishing | Olaudah Equiano | Equiano was already a well-known figure in the abolitionist movement in Britain when his book appeared. He had issued Proposals for his subscription in November 1788 (the same month that George III
fell ill, probably... |
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, 1844, 3 vols. 2: 151 |
politics | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | MBF
seems to have been too much occupied with the religious life to have much thought to spare for earthly politics. At the beginning of December 1792, however, after a conversation with someone anxious about... |
Publishing | Anne Francis | The Norwich Mercury carried an 80-line poem by AFOn His Majesty's illness (George III
's first serious and prolonged attack of porphyria). Chandler, David. “’The Athens of England’: Norwich as a Literary Center in the Late Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 43 , No. 2, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 2010, pp. 171-92. 185 |
politics | Anne Francis | AF
was a conservative royalist who rejoiced repeatedly at the recovery of George III
from his first bout of illness (and wrote a song for the local Sunday school pupils to rejoice too) and praised... |
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