Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire

07 June 1757 - 30 March 1806

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 Much of her work remains unpublished and her canon, both in prose and poetry, is far from certain.

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Literary responses	Dorothy Wellesley	Yeats admired this volume for its explorations of the picturesque, for its love . . . for undisturbed Nature, a hatred for the abstract, the mechanical, the invented, and for an intensity which he saw...
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...
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...
Performance of text	Joanna Baillie	Produced by J. P. Kemble in a version adapted by himself, this performance included an epilogue by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire . Howells, Coral Ann. Joanna Baillie and Her Circle, 1790-1850. Camden History Society, 1973. Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 4, 1998, pp. 469-00. 490n22 The play was revived by Edmund Kean in 1821, for five nights...
politics	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	He held office under the Whigs, played a role in the trial of Warren Hastings , became an intimate friend of the Prince of Wales , and was a vital player (with Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
politics	Mary Robinson	MR moved in radical literary circles; her friends were writers and intellectuals with a mission to change the world. She observes that of male servants the most loyal she found over the course of her...
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...
politics	Anne Damer	AD was a Fox ite Whig, who helped her friend the Duchess of Devonshire in her campaign for Fox in the famous election of May 1784. She later championed Queen Caroline at the time of...
Publishing	Anne Grant	Among her 3,000 subscribers were Joanna Baillie , Felicia Hemans , Robert Southey , William Wordsworth , Lady Bessborough , her sister Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , the minor poet Lady Dick , Elizabeth Hamilton
Publishing	Martha Hale	Subscribers included the Prince of Wales and other royalty, Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach , Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , her daughter the Countess of Carlisle , Charles Burney , Warren Hastings , Miss De Camp (later Maria Theresa Kemble)
Publishing	Charlotte Smith	Encouraged by her friendship with the theatrical patron and amateur performer Henrietta O'Neill , CS had long thought about writing for the stage. She had written to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , in 1795 about...
Publishing	Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire	Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire re-issued her predecessor Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 's The Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard at Paris with her own Sketch of a Descriptive Journey through Switzerland. Bess's work...
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...
Publishing	Sophia King	SK 's subscribers included J. Fortnum , Esq. (perhaps her father-in-law), and many from the nobility, including the Duchess of Devonshire and her husband , the Duchess of Rutland , and Lord Melbourne (father-in-law of...
Publishing	Helen Maria Williams	The Poems were in two volumes, with HMW 's name in full, published by Rivington and Marshall , with an engraved frontispiece drawn by Maria Cosway . Subscribers included the Prince of Wales (whose name...

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