Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

The bride, grand-daughter of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough , brought immense wealth with her; the groom became Duke of Bedford within a couple of years.

EB 's preface alludes to Steele'sTatler, and calls the slow, sure Snail . . . the well-meant, altho' weak Attempt of a mere Woman. After an introductory poem, her basic unit for...

MB here recounts the story, set during the final days of James II 's reign, of Mary Savile, a fictional maid of honour toMary of Modena , James's wife (whose actual maids of honour...

Brooke's advertisement to volume 3 says she gave up her plan for an essay on the writing of history, and settled instead on using notes to demonstrate how this work is, as all history ought...

EB 's friendship with Sarah Churchill, later Duchess of Marlborough (like that with her future husband, Gilbert Burnet , and his second wife, Mary ), dated back to the years when they were all in...

Depending on her correspondent, EB writes like a scholar, an author, and a political lobbyist. To Trumbull, a moderate Tory , she paints the extremists in his party as a company of unjust & extravagant...

Congreve's daughter therefore grew up with the name and identity of Mary Godolphin , from her supposed and legal father. (Henrietta's title, held in her own right of descent from her famous father, was not...

EC called this book the first publick Tryal of my Muse. It was printed the same year (by Samuel Richardson ) with a dedication to Sarah Duchess of Marlborough . Though Christiana Horton played...

Georgiana Spencer married (in the parish church at Wimbledon near London, on her seventeenth birthday) the Duke of Devonshire .

Through her father, Georgiana was a great-great-granddaughter of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough .

EH dedicated to Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough , a major critique, with her name, of Sir Robert Walpole 's Prime Ministership: the satirical fiction Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo.

The ten women here share varying degrees and varying combinations of sexual, political, or literary notoriety. Two of them—Elizabeth Inchbald and Lady Blessington —hold the status of professional authors. Two more—Becky Wells (whom...

In this month MJ 's ballad was set to music by a Mr Howard (probably Samuel Howard ). Jones was delighted at this chance publication and equally gleeful when the ballad was...

She became, along with Anne Kingsmill (later Anne Finch) and Sarah Jennings (later Duchess of Marlborough) , a Maid of Honour to Mary of Modena (then Duchess of York).

Evidence about AK 's friends and contacts is sketchy, but she presumably knew well her fellow maids of honour Anne Kingsmill and Sarah Jennings , who later became, respectively, a distinguished poet and a powerful...