Henrietta Churchill Duchess of Marlborough

His hitherto discreet partner the young Duchess of Marlboroughmade herself conspicuous by her public mourning.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wrote a poem to the memory of Congreve, who, she says, In pain could...

She had been working on it for two years, and saw it as an attempt to reform the stage.Congreve sent her detailed suggestions for revision, which sought to improve not her literary...

Spedding believes that the original numbers came out more regularly than has sometimes been assumed by commentators. Collected in volume form after two editions in these original numbers, The Female Spectator had nine editions or...

Congreve never married. He had two successive long-term liaisons, the first with the actress Anne Bracegirdle , for whose interpretation he created all his heroines of comedy, and the second (most discreetly conducted) with the...