Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
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Standard Name: Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish,,, Duchess of
Birth Name: Georgiana Spencer
Styled: Lady Georgiana Spencer
Married Name: Lady Georgiana Cavendish
Titled: Lady Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Pseudonym: A Young Lady
Nickname: The Rat
An occasional or amateur author during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, wrote in a number of genres: poetry, diaries, travel writings, letters, and possibly two novels. Much of her work remains unpublished and her canon, both in prose and poetry, is far from certain.
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Cultural formation | Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Her sexuality was and remains a large part of her reputation. She seems to have begun on her pattern of extramarital affairs while still with her first husband. While on her travels she was constantly... |
death | Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire
, died in Rome, eighteen years precisely after the death of her predecessor Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998. 399 |
Dedications | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | She was working on the research for this novel before she married; the work was interrupted by her father's death in May 1812. After it she wrote: He was the object for which I laboured... |
Dedications | Charlotte Smith | She dated her preface 19 November 1794. Further editions followed, and Rambles Farther (a sequel from the same publishers, Cadell and Davies
) appeared in August 1796, dedicated by permission to the twelve-year-old daughter of... |
Dedications | Ann Hatton | The future AH
published with her name (Ann Curtis, sister of Mrs. Siddons) Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, with a strong subscription list, dedicated to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 57 (1784): 314 |
Dedications | Susanna Haswell Rowson | SHR
issued by subscription her first novel, Victoria, dedicated to her possible employer (or ex-employer) Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, published for the author. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 1: 388-9 |
Dedications | Frances Arabella Rowden | She dedicated the work to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
(aunt of her pupil Lady Caroline Lamb
), who blooms the sweetest flow'r in Britain's isle. Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Poetical Introduction to the Study of Botany. T. Bensley, 1801. |
Dedications | Radagunda Roberts | Hawkesworth, in suggesting this translation, had observed that as a woman's work of truly delicate female type this novel needed a female translator. He then revised, corrected, and approved the manuscript, but mere chance prevented... |
Employer | Susanna Haswell Rowson | It was during this lean period that she began writing, teaching (she was probably though not certainly a governess, and possibly worked for Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
), and acting. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Lady Elizabeth Foster
became the friend of the current Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana
, and of the Duke
; very soon the three were inseparable. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998. 97, 103 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Lady Elizabeth Foster
married her long-time lover, the Duke of Devonshire
, three years after the death of his first wife, Georgiana
, her intimate friend. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998. 395 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, 1910–1959, 14 vols. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Bess attached herself sentimentally to both the Duke
and Duchess of Devonshire
. Georgiana loved her from the first; it is not clear exactly how soon the duke (known in this intimate circle as Canis... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Fullerton | GF
's mother was born Lady Henrietta Elizabeth (Harriet or Harryo) Cavendish
, daughter of the fifth Duke of Devonshire
and of the writer and patron Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
. A shrewd and intelligent... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Fullerton | GF
's celebrated or notorious maternal grandmother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, died six years before her grand-daughter and namesake was born. Nevertheless, her reputation (as a beauty, a gambler, a scandalous woman, and a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
's mother, Henrietta Frances Ponsonby
, later Countess of Bessborough and known as Harriet, was the sister of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, and, like her, a patron of women writers and of the... |
Timeline
22 March 1754: A group of Nobles, Clergy, Gentlemen, & Merchants...
Building item
22 March 1754
A group of Nobles, Clergy, Gentlemen, & Merchants met to establish what became the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce .
Mackay, David. In the Wake of Cook: Exploration, Science and Empire, 1780-1801. Croom Helm, 1985.
14
Allan, D. G. C., and John L. Abbott, editors. The Virtuoso Tribe of Arts and Sciences. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
3, 16-17, 44
1771: In a year when Sir Joshua Reynolds painted,...
Women writers item
1771
In a year when Sir Joshua Reynolds
painted, as Girl Reading, his niece Theophila Palmer
perusing Richardson
's Clarissa, five novels by women advertised their Clarissa kinship.
Perry, Ruth. “Clarissa’s Daughters, or The History of Innocence Betrayed. How Women Writers Rewrote Richardson”. Clarissa and Her Readers: New Essays for the Clarissa Project, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 119-41.
133-5
1777: Henry Mackenzie published his sentimental...
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1777
Henry Mackenzie
published his sentimental novel Julia de Roubigné, whose heroine is poisoned by the jealous husband she has married to please her father.
Manning, Susan. “Julie de Roubigné: Last Gasp, or First Fruits?”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
24
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2001, pp. 161-73. 163
17 June 1783: Sir Cecil Wray, a maverick independent politician...
National or international item
17 June 1783
Sir Cecil Wray
, a maverick independent politician and reformer, presented in the House of Commons
a Quaker petition for the abolition of slavery.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Cecil Wray
5 November 1788-10 March 1789: George III's illness and palpable incapacity...
National or international item
5 November 1788-10 March 1789
George III
's illness and palpable incapacity produced the Regency Crisis: the issue was whether or not power would devolve to the Prince of Wales
.
Foreman, Amanda. “A politician’s politician: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and the Whig party”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 179-04.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
July 1796: The explorer Mungo Park, abandoned and anxious...
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July 1796
The explorer Mungo Park
, abandoned and anxious on the banks of the Niger River in what is now Mali, was taken in, housed and fed by African village women, who composed and sang...
24 December 1799: Samuel Taylor Coleridge published in the...
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24 December 1799
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
published in the Morning Post his ode in praise of the poetry of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Poetical Works [of] Coleridge, including poems and versions of poems herein published for the first time. Editor Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, Oxford University Press, 1969.
335
9 June 1819: The library of the late Queen Charlotte was...
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9 June 1819
The library of the late Queen Charlotte
was auctioned by Christie's
; it included Jane Austen
's works, plus titles by Catherine Cuthbertson
, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, Christian Isobel Johnstone
, Alethea Lewis
Texts
Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of. Emma. T. Hookham, 1773, 3 vols.
Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of. Memorandums of the Face of the Country in Switzerland. Cooper and Graham, 1799.
Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, and Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. Sketch of a Descriptive Journey through Switzerland; The Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard. J. J. Burgdorfer, 1816.
Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of. The Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard. Prosper and Company, 1802.
Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of. The Sylph. T. Lowndes, 1779, 2 vols.
Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of, and Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. The Two Duchesses, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire. Editor Foster, Vere, Blackie and Son; Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1898.