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Reception | Fidelia | Although Gentleman's Magazine poets in general have attracted attention from Anthony Barker
, and Jane Brereton
has received overdue critical notice from Sarah Prescott
, Fidelia's lack of a historical identity seems to have militated... |
Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | MO
published in Blackwoods her Historical Sketches of the Reign of George II, whose subjects include Queen Caroline
(his wife) and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press. 341 |
Publishing | Mary Barber | He concluded, let Mrs Howard
know that I recommend you to the Queen
, Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, Vol. xviii , pp. 155-74. 170 |
Publishing | Jane Brereton | In the Gentleman's Magazine, Edward Cave
announced his competition for a poem on the busts of British worthies set up in Queen Caroline
's Cave or Grotto at Richmond. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 3 (1733): 208 |
Publishing | Catharine Trotter | The Gentleman's Magazine published Catharine Cockburn's (the former CT
)'s poem on the busts of British worthies in Queen Caroline
's hermitage. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 7 (1737): 308 |
politics | Mary, Countess Cowper | MCC
supported the Whig party, in which her husband, Lord Cowper, was a leading player. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William, first Earl Cowper |
politics | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Notwithstanding EBB
's later assertion in Sonnets from the Portuguese that I lived with visions for my company / Instead of men and women, years ago, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press. 3: 239 |
politics | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | She frequented both of the incompatible court circles—those of the king and of the Prince
and Princess of Wales
—apparently in search of a power base. |
Occupation | May Drummond | She was called to the ministry around 1734, which, Thomas Story reported, caused renewed pain to her family. Story, Thomas. 714 |
Occupation | Mary, Countess Cowper | In the distribution of favours that marked King George
's accession, MCC
was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to his daughter-in-law Caroline of Anspach
, now Princess of Wales. Mary, Countess Cowper,. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray. 6-7 |
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... |
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... |
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 | 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. 92 |
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 |
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