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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 Much of her work remains unpublished and her canon, both in prose and poetry, is far from certain.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | In Richmond and elsewhere MC
met emigrés fleeing the French Revolution. She also met a number of women who wrote: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, Mary
and Agnes Berry
, and Anne Damer
. In... |
| Friends, Associates | Anne Damer | AD
's wide circle of friends included Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, Lady Melbourne
, Joanna Baillie
, Sarah Siddons
, the Berrysisters
, the dramatist Lady Elizabeth Craven (formerly Berkeley, later Margravine of Anspach) |
| Friends, Associates | Charlotte Smith | CS
was a friend at least from 1787, but more probably from childhood, with the poet Henrietta O'Neill
(who married in 1777). She visited her at the O'Neills' London house at least twice, and through... |
| Friends, Associates | Caroline Herschel | Though CH
recorded in summer 1774 that she had lost her only female acquaintance (apparently because her work for her brother left her no time for social life), she later met Charles
and Frances Burney |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Berry | Lady Charlotte Lindsay
, like Anne Damer before her, wrote of her friendship with MB
(which dated from about 1821) in highflown sentimental terms, and felt that Berry devoted too much time and emotional capital... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mariana Starke | Her preface says the translation was first suggested to her by the dowager Lady Spencer
(mother of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
), whom she met in Italy; Lady Spencer also persuaded to her to publish... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | She here turns to use some of the research she had done with the intention of writing a non-fictional study of Belgium (only recently constituted as a nation) and its politics, and a guide-book element... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Fielding | Critic Carolyn Woodward
has noted (besides this novel's picture of a community of women in Protestant-nunnery style) a general resemblance between its plot and that of The Sylph (probably by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
), 1778. Woodward, Carolyn, and Isobel Grundy. Email about Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and Sarah Fielding to Isobel Grundy. 5 Aug. 2003. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Bonhote | She now intends, for the benefit of her readers, to do something new and to write of life after marriage, since that too has its problems. She aims to be natural, not marvellous. Olivia (after... |
| Leisure and Society | Anne Damer | AD
was often a subject for other artists. Sometime before 1775 Daniel Gardner
painted an unusual fancy picture of her, with her friends Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
(a particularly frequent sitter on account of her... |
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