Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Josiah Priest
Standard Name: Priest, Josiah
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1676: A boarding-school at Gorges House, Chelsea,...
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1676
A boarding-school at Gorges House, Chelsea, near London, put on a production of Beauties Triumph, a masque by Thomas Duffett
with music by John Banister
.
Campbell, Margaret. Henry Purcell, Glory of His Age. Oxford University Press, 1995.
137
Reynolds, Myra. The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760. Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
258-9
1680: Josiah Priest and his wife moved their girls'...
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1680
Josiah Priest
and his wife moved their girls' boarding school from Leicester Fields in London to Chelsea, where they took over an existing school in Gorges House.
Campbell, Margaret. Henry Purcell, Glory of His Age. Oxford University Press, 1995.
131, 146
Evelyn, John. Diary and Correspondence. Editor Bray, William, Routledge, 1906.
508
April 1684: Mr and Mrs Priest's school at Gorges House,...
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April 1684
Mr
and Mrs Priest's school at Gorges House, Chelsea, put on a private revival of the court masque Venus and Adonis, by John Blow
(to a libretto perhaps by the future Anne Finch
).
Campbell, Margaret. Henry Purcell, Glory of His Age. Oxford University Press, 1995.
136
Winn, James Anderson. “A Versifying Maid of Honour: Anne Finch and the Libretto for Venus and AdonisReview of English Studies, Vol.
59
, No. 238, Feb. 2008, pp. 67-85.
67-85
Probably 23 April 1689: Mr and Mrs Priest's girls' school in Chelsea...
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Probably 23 April 1689
Mr
and Mrs Priest's girls' school in Chelsea put on the first (private) performance of Dido and Aeneas, by Henry Purcell
.
Campbell, Margaret. Henry Purcell, Glory of His Age. Oxford University Press, 1995.
130, 137, 146
Wharton, Philip, Duke of. The Poetical Works of Philip, late Duke of Wharton. Edmund Curll, 1731.
