John Sheffield first Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

Standard Name: Buckingham and Normanby, John Sheffield,,, first Duke of
Used Form: John Sheffield, third Earl of Mulgrave
Used Form: Lord Mulgrave

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Caesar
After her husband died, MC closed her book by pasting in his obituary notice and writing: Alas, there's no Expression / To Tell my Dismal Woe. These words from a bereaved royalist (John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham
politics Mary Caesar
From the time she began writing her Jacobite credo in 1724, MC worked on constructing a domestic cult for the edification of family and friends in the Jacobite faith, in which archives, pictures and poetry...
Reception Anne Askew
Knowledge of AA 's writing spread rapidly. The reactionary Stephen Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester, complained on 6 June 1547 of the number of copies in circulation.
Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, 1996.
xxviii-xxix
John Foxe gave it a still wider...
Textual Features Ephelia
Not all the poems in the volume are written in Ephelia's voice (which adds an extra dimension to argument over the ascription of those written in other voices).It seems that Ephelia enjoyed ventriloquizing the opposite...
Textual Production Aphra Behn
AB wrote a verse epistle, Ovid to Julia, designed to defend or excuse the Earl of Mulgrave (later Duke of Buckingham) for aspiring to the hand of the young Princess Anne .
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
289-90
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Lady Piers
But she moves on from celebration to warning: the human race is fallen, and a ruler needs to guard against ambition (This second Paradise, oh hazard not),
Piers, Sarah, Lady. George for Britain. A Poem. Bernard Lintott, 1714.
12
faction, and rebellion (imaged as...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Brereton
In the first of this group of poems, Melissa declares her own inferiority to Fidelia (with a brief survey of other poets including Pope , Buckingham , Prior , Dryden and Finch ).

Timeline

31 January 1707: Matthew Prior's Poems on Several Occasions...

Writing climate item

31 January 1707

Matthew Prior 's Poems on Several Occasions were published illicitly, through Edmund Curll .
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995.
154: 82
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
27

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