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was born securely into the ranks of the English gentry, and through her marriage eventually joined the Anglo-Irish nobility. Nevertheless, in 1794 she found herself attacked in The Female Jockey Club (a notorious and...
Family and Intimate relationships
Anne Damer
Piozzi wrote a verse squib about this supposed relationship. The egregious Charles Pigott
took up the charge in The Whig Club, 1794,
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
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and (perhaps as a result) Piozzi mentioned it again the year...
Textual Features
Eglinton Wallace
She opens with an apology for any lack of clarity in the Conduct, caused by her writing in such haste. She dismisses the French national character as infantile though precocious, just emerging from the...
Wealth and Poverty
Eglinton Wallace
A crushing load of debt descended to Sir Thomas Wallace together with the Wallace estate of Craigie, and in 1783 he found himself compelled to sell the property.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
At some time during the American War...
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By October 1794: Charles Pigott anonymously published his...
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By October 1794
Charles Pigott
anonymously published his scurrilous personal lampoon on upper-class women: The Female Jockey Club, or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 12 (1794): 238
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Texts
Pigott, Charles. The Female Jockey Club. D. I . Eaton, 1794.