Sarah Churchill, 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.

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

MCC made some good friends at Court. She was particularly fond of Charlotte Clayton (later Lady Sundon) . Her close relationship with Penelope Schutz (née Madan) became a liability when Penelope fell out of favour...

She now sought the friendship of those in political power, like James Craggs , Charlotte Clayton , and members of the royal family. But she was closest to outsiders like Lady Stafford (an almost certainly...

The novel offers in passing an amusing catalogue of an old-fashioned library, whose first items are heroic romances like Ibraham; Cassandra; Cleopatra [by Madeleine de Scudéry and Gauthier de La Calprenède ]. Several...

A series of various keys attached to later editions fed curiosity about the originals of DM 's portraits, without actually giving very much away. Her work can claim some credit for the collapse of...

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...

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).

Always attentive to the undercurrents of political behaviour (she reported the demeanour of Elizabeth Cellier in the pillory in a tone that sounds sympathetic although they were on different sides of the party divide), LRR

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...