| Theme or Topic Treated in Text |
Lucille Iremonger |
Her opening chapter addresses her own experience, with heartfelt reminiscence about the impact of political campaigning on married life. She sets out to combat the view of the candidate's (later the member's) wife either as...
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| Theme or Topic Treated in Text |
Muriel Jaeger |
She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation...
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| Textual Features |
Christian Isobel Johnstone |
CIJ
describes traditional Highland women's occupations such as waulking, or the manufacture of flax cloth. Throughout the novel she introduces, explains, and footnotes Gaelic customs (as Dorothea Primrose Campbell
does Zetland ones). She also...
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| Publishing |
Isabella Kelly |
Its title-page mentioned its dedication (with permission) to the Duchess of York
. This dedication voices IK
's hopes of extricating her husband from distress as well as supporting her children. Its subscription list was...
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| Publishing |
Sophia King |
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| Occupation |
Ellis Cornelia Knight |
The Regent
made no complaint about ECK
at her dismissal, but it would appear that the dismissal was related to Princess Charlotte's decision that she would not marry a prince who seemed likely to subordinate...
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| 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...
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| Family and Intimate relationships |
Lady Caroline Lamb |
Her aunt the Duchess of Devonshire
(whose wealth, or rather that of her husband the duke, helped support Caroline's parents) wrote a new year poem for the little girl, instructing her to use her gift...
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| politics |
Lady Caroline Lamb |
Probably inspired by the example of her aunt the Duchess of Devonshire
, she wrote letters, canvassed in taverns, and exchanged kisses for votes. Being even more notorious already than her aunt, she had less...
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| Textual Features |
Lady Caroline Lamb |
The printed selection begins with girlhood letters to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
's elder daughter. It goes on to include correspondence with friends and publishers, analyses of feelings and comments on the experience of pregnancy...
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| Textual Features |
Sarah Macnaughtan |
In this novel a young woman named Hetty Du Cane goes for an autumn vacation with several others at a friend's house in the English countryside and meets several interesting people. Her love interest, Geoffrey...
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| Occupation |
Anna Miller |
The day chosen was Friday, later switched to Thursday. The meetings took place in winter, the fashionable season at Bath, and upper-class visitors were eager to attend. Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire
visited during the first...
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| Textual Production |
Jean Plaidy |
The first-named is George I
's rejected queen
(accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover
was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel...
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| Friends, Associates |
Maria Riddell |
Angus Macnaghten voices the belief that MRhad few women friends (he excepts Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
) and that women were scared off by her erudition. He may, however, have been misled by women's...
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| Textual Features |
Maria Riddell |
MR
's own twenty poems include prefatory verses as editor, written for the occasion. She prints work by the late Henrietta O'Neill
(the well-known Ode to the Poppy), Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire
( St...
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