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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 |
Occupation | May Drummond | She was called to the ministry around 1734, which, Thomas Story reported, caused renewed pain to her family. Story, Thomas. 714 |
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. |
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 |
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 |
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... |
Residence | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | When Lady Hertford and her husband were married they had a London town house in Albemarle Street (close to Bond Street) as well as a country estate at Marlborough in Wiltshire. Marlborough Castle, as... |
Textual Features | Jane Brereton | The title-page quotes Guarini
. It comments on various political and topical issues, such as the estrangement between George I
and the Prince of Wales
and a plan for founding a girls' school (on both... |
Textual Features | Jane Brereton | Each poem is headed by a picture, showing the thatched structure of Merlin's Cave and the stone-built royal hermitage respectively. The first poem, Merlin, is Humbly inscrib'd to Caroline
, Brereton, Jane. Merlin. Cave. title-page |
Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | A week later (14 October) came SC
's companion-piece, An Epistle to Mrs. Wallup, now in the train of Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales
, as it was sent to her at the... |
Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | These poems were three of the six eclogues (one for each weekday) preserved in the poetry album which Montagu claimed as her own, and printed as Six Town Eclogues in 1747. Monday, the first... |
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