Philip Dormer Stanhope fourth Earl of Chesterfield
Chesterfield's illegitimate son, Philip Stanhope
, was by all accounts awkward in manner and debilitatingly shy. Chesterfield expended immense effort in the attempt, through a series of advice-letters beginning when Philip was a small child...
Family and Intimate relationships
Harriette Wilson
A letter published in the English Spy in April 1825 alleged that HW
's paternal grandmother was Elizabeth Dubouchette
, mistress of Lord Chesterfield
, so that her father was half-brother of Philip Stanhope
...
Timeline
By April 1774: Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son Philip...
Writing climate item
By April 1774
Lord Chesterfield
's Letters to his Son Philip Stanhope were posthumously published by his daughter-in-law Eugenia
; her omission of all material relating to herself gave rise to the story that he had not known...
