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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Anne Killigrew | 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). Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago. 299 |
Friends, Associates | Anne Killigrew | 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... |
Reception | Mary Jones | In this month MJ
's ballad was set to music by a Mr Howard (probably Samuel Howard
). Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. (1742) 12: 101 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Jenkins | 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... |
Dedications | Eliza Haywood | 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. Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 347-50 Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press. 177 Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction”. Adventures of Eovaai, edited by Earla Wilputte, Broadview, pp. 7-40. 45n1 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana Spencer
married (in the parish church at Wimbledon near London, on her seventeenth birthday) the Duke of Devonshire
. The Complete Peerage gives the date as 5 June. Wimbledon Park (since destroyed) was one... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Through her father, Georgiana was a great-great-granddaughter of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough
. |
Dedications | Elizabeth Cooper | EC
called this book the first publick Tryal of my Muse. Cooper, Elizabeth. The Rival Widows. T. Woodward. v |
Family and Intimate relationships | William Congreve | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Burnet | 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... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Burnet | |
Textual Features | Frances Brooke | 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... |
Literary Setting | Mary Boyle | 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... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Boyd | 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. Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Boyd |
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