Harriette Wilson
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Standard Name: Wilson, Harriette
Birth Name: Harriette Dubouchet
Self-constructed Name: Wilson
Self-constructed Name: Lamb
Married Name: Harriette Rochfort
HW
turned her career as an early nineteenth-century courtesan to good practical use as a memoirist and writer of scandal fiction: though she shows genuine literary talent, the primary aim of her writing was blackmail. She also wrote drama and verse.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Mary Stockdale | MS
went to the same school in London as Harriette Wilson This was not the Newcastle school which Wilson likened to a prison. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | Her eldest son later acquired notoriety in the first sentence of Harriette Wilson
's Memoirs, 1825: I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Gunning | EG
was already rumoured to be engaged to her cousin the Marquess of Lorne
, heir to her uncle the Duke of Argyll
; Lorne, like her, was not yet twenty. He later became a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | She told Sydney Morgan she had her first experience of falling in love at twelve. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine JewsburyEditors , AMS Press, 1975. 2: 212 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Stockdale | His specialities were scandal, pornography, and blackmail. He was an attacker of the alleged profiteer Mary Anne Clarke
, and claimed to have given her protector the Duke of York
the idea of getting hold... |
Friends, Associates | Henry Peter, Baron Brougham | Brougham had a number of friends among women writers. He was at primary school in Edinburgh with Susan Ferrier
(who, however, declined to acknowledge him later, probably for political reasons). His political work brought him... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Germaine Greer | The work is divided into two parts, The Obstacles and How They Ran. The obstacles begin with Family, Love, and the Illusion of Success, and end with the Disappearing Oeuvre. This conceptual organization, as... |
Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | From the date of Byron's death, LCL
lived with a constant succession of revelations in celebrity memoirs, which often contained something hurtful to herself. Thomas Medwin
, whom she respected as a truth-teller, printed an... |
Publishing | Nina Hamnett | Its publication was marked by an exhibition of NH
's drawings and paintings at the Zwemmer Gallery
in Litchfield Street, London. The opening, on 8 June, was attended by many of NH
's friends... |
Publishing | Angela Thirkell | In 1930, once she was back in England, she found she could earn her living by journalism for Punch and the Fortnightly Review. She was attuned to writing by women from an early stage... |
Textual Production | Lady Caroline Lamb | |
Textual Production | George Paston | GP
had discovered these letters—written by, among others, Elizabeth Pigot
, Lady Caroline Lamb
, Augusta Leigh
, Lady Melbourne
, Annabella Milbanke
, Claire Clairmont
, and the actresses Susan Boyce
and Mrs Spencer... |
Textual Production | Angela Thirkell | AT
published The Fortunes of Harriette, a life of courtesan-memoirist Harriette Wilson
. Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth, 1977. 175, 104-5 |
Textual Production | Mary Wesley | The woman who later wrote as MW
, having lived a colourful life, and drafted books but never yet published at book length, began writing her memoirs, modelling herself on such scandal memoirists as Harriette Wilson
. Marnham, Patrick. Wild Mary: the Life of Mary Wesley. Chatto and Windus, 2006. 182 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Jenkins | The ten women here share varying degrees and varying combinations of sexual, political, or literary notoriety. Two of them—Elizabeth Inchbald
and Lady Blessington
—hold the status of professional authors. Two more—Becky Wells (whom... |
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