Mary Isabella Manners Duchess of Rutland

Standard Name: Rutland, Mary Isabella Manners,,, Duchess of

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Dedications Mary Deverell
The title-page had a quotation from Edward Young , and carried the information that MD was selling copies from her own house. MD dedicated the play to the Duchess of Rutland .
Publishing Ann Hatton
Some of these poems, she said, were written at the age of fourteen, and others under a complication of Difficulties.
Hatton, Ann. Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects. Millan and Rae, 1783.
prelims
She mentions her lameness, and her fraught relations with her family.
Henderson, Jim. “Ann of Swansea: a life on the edge”. National Library of Wales Journal, Vol.
34
, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-47.
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The Duchess of Rutland
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Deverell
In a poem about dancing, MD praises the Duchesses of Devonshire and Rutland .
Deverell, Mary. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. Printed for the author by J. Rivington, Jun., 1781, 2 vols.
1: 79-80
She gives one epistle a kind of doggerel title: Advice to a Rev'rend Cleric, Near his grand climacteric, That...

Timeline

20 September 1787: The Duchess of Rutland successfully outbid...

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20 September 1787

The Duchess of Rutland successfully outbid Lord Tyrconnel , her local rival in the exercise of political patronage.
Chalus, Elaine. “’That epidemical Madness’: women and electoral politics in the late eighteenth century”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 151-78.
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