Thomas, Elizabeth, 1675 - 1731, and Richard Gwinnett. Pylades and Corinna. 1731.
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Characters | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | All the mock eclogues (written, like most of Montagu's more ambitious poetry, in heroic couplets with the occasional triplet) target actual individuals and refer to events which were gossip of the day. Monday, Wednesday... |
Dedications | Mary Jones | This volume was dedicated to the Princess of Orange
: Anne, daughter of George II
and the late Queen Caroline
. The princess's mother had been a patron of MJ
's friend Martha Lovelace, later... |
Dedications | Elizabeth Elstob | The first of these works, dedicated to Caroline, Princess of Wales
, is sometimes called the first grammar of Anglo-Saxon; in fact Elstob was preceded by her friend and patron George Hickes
, who published... |
Dedications | Elizabeth Thomas | She says that at some time a publisher offered her £30 for a Manuscript Folio of my Poems Thomas, Elizabeth, 1675 - 1731, and Richard Gwinnett. Pylades and Corinna. 1731. 2: 289 |
Dedications | Sarah Stone | She had completed it by 1736. Grundy, Isobel. “Sarah Stone: Enlightenment Midwife”. Clio Medica: Medicine in the Enlightenment, edited by Roy Porter, Rodopi, 1995, pp. 128-44. 129 |
Employer | Anne Irwin | AI
travelled to Germany, appointed by Queen Caroline
to escort Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
to England to marry the Prince of Wales
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Employer | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
, was officially appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to Caroline, Princess of Wales
. “Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Household of Princess Caroline 1721-27”. Institute of Historical Research. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | This scandal-sheet made a point of de Guïnes' support for the rebellious American colonists, and of Lord Craven having married his wife without receiving a fortune appropriate to his own wealth; each of these facts... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach | Christian Frederick Charles Alexander, margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth
, sprang from a petty ruling family in Germany. He was a nephew both of Frederick the Great of Prussia
and of Queen Caroline
, wife of George... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Jones | MJ
corresponded with Charlotte Lennox
and with publisher Ralph Griffiths
and his wife Isabella
. Her friendship was valued by literary men like Samuel Johnson
, Joseph Spence
, Thomas Warton
, and apparently Bonnell Thornton |
Friends, Associates | Mary Countess Cowper | MCC
made some good friends at Court. She was particularly fond of Charlotte Clayton (later Lady Sundon)
. Her close relationship with |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Chapone | SC
was a great networker. Having met George Ballard
, a local man (perhaps because her sister was a patient of his mother, who was a midwife), she introduced him to Elizabeth Elstob
and to... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | She and Lady Pomfret
(another amateur writer) together mourned for the death of Queen Caroline
, who had been their admired friend as well as their employer. Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940. 92 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Conway | AC
's work was of particular interest to the Philadelphian Society
associated with Jane Lead
. It is now believed to have influenced Leibnitz
(who owned and annotated a copy of her treatise), and through... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Countess Cowper | On her appointment as Lady in Waiting to Caroline of Anspach
, the new Princess of Wales, MCC
began keeping a private diary to record the true version of what went on at Court, in... |
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