Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan.
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Selina Shirley Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
Standard Name: Huntingdon, Selina Shirley Hastings,,, Countess of
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Frances Thynne, later Hertford, began letter-writing at an early age. She was eleven when her grandfather
was glad to find her in an hopeful way of being a good scribe, |
| Textual Production | Sarah Tytler | |
| Textual Production | Maria De Fleury | The book is bolstered by prefaces from Thomas Wills
(an associate of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon
but an antagonist in print of William Huntington
), John Towers
(to whose Independent congregation MDF
belonged), John Collett Ryland |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Lady Hertford wrote that a certain distrust of her own judgement made her slow in the choice of a friend; but when that choice is made, my attachments are too strong to be easily broken... |
| Friends, Associates | Susanna Wesley | During her widowhood SW
made many new female friends, including Selina, Countess of Huntingdon
, who was well-known as the originator of a new dissenting sect. Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles Wallace, Oxford University Press. 15 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Phebe Gibbes | PG
's elder daughter, Lucy (who from 1789 was by marriage Lucy Goodman
), was from at least the age of ten brought up not by her parents but by her aunt by marriage Elizabeth French |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | This son became a lawyer but then, in 1748, underwent a religious conversion when (having come to scoff) he heard John Wesley
preach and was deeply touched. In the 1750s he abandoned the law for... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Shirley | This Shirley family later became Earls Ferrers, and produced Selina Shirley Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
, whose religious fervour manifested itself at the other end of the Christian sectarian scale from that of ES
. |
| Dedications | Phillis Wheatley | The engraved portrait of PW
writing which makes the frontispiece is dated the first of September. Wheatley, Phillis, and Henry Louis Gates. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. Editor Shields, John C., Oxford University Press. prelims |
| Cultural formation | Jane Cave | JC
, daughter of Welsh and English parents, Schürer, Norbert. “Jane Cave Winscom: Provincial Poetry and the Metropolitan Connection”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 36 , No. 3, pp. 415-31. 417 |
| Cultural formation | Judith Cowper Madan | From about this time she associated herself with John Wesley
's fairly new religious group called the Methodists
(then part of the Church of England). Another influence on her religious thinking was Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon |
Timeline
1761: The Countess of Huntingdon established her...
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1761
The Countess of Huntingdon
established her first registered chapel, at Brighton.
1768: The Countess of Huntingdon opened Trevecca...
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1768
The Countess of Huntingdon
opened Trevecca College
, for the training of evangelical Dissenting ministers, at Trevecca, Brecknockshire, Wales.
By August 1777: The Rev. Thomas Gibbons published Memoirs...
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By August 1777
The Rev. Thomas Gibbons
published Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women, addressed to parents of present-day women or girls, and dedicated to the Countess of Huntingdon
.
December 1779: By the Act for Further Relief of Protestant...
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December 1779
By the Act for Further Relief of Protestant Dissenting Ministers, the Countess of Huntingdon
's chapels were registered as Dissenting meeting houses.
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