George Berkeley

CT received a proposal of marriage from George Berkeley , son of the bishop and philosopher of the same name; he was ordained, and about to take on his first church living.

CT met George Berkeley the younger, his father , and the rest of his family, when he became an Oxford undergraduate in 1752. A family friendship ensued; the two called each other brother and sister.

According to Eliza Berkeley , it was the month before George Berkeley 's marriage that CT wrote a Song of renunciation which resolves to hide her own pain and wish the best for her beloved's future wife.

Following the renunciation of her love for George Berkeley , it seems that CT wrote a series of at least ten poems of passionate feeling. She, or more probably Elizabeth Carter acting after her...

Her subscribers included Lord Annesley (of yet another branch of her paternal family) and other relations, George Berkeley and his wife Eliza Berkeley , the Dowager Countess Charleville (who had acquired that style only when...

Eliza Berkeley published in the Gentleman's Magazine her account of the love between her husband and CT , with the text of two poems by Talbot from nearly forty years back.

CT must have written this by 1754, when George Berkeley transcribed it with notes on making use of it for his sermons. His copy (now British Library Additional MS 46689) is titled Meditations. It...

The British Library holds a number of CT 's letters, her journal, the manuscript of Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week, and poems (which, however, are not catalogued under her name). It...