Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Irwin | Nearly a decade after his death Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
addressed to the widow an poetic argument against infidelity so jaunty as to suggest she did not think him a husband worth mourning. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press. 257-8 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | Her mother, born Mary Gilbert
, from a gentry family in Hertfordshire, was her father's second wife, married more than twenty years after the death of his first. (That first wife, the beautiful, scholarly, fourteen-year-old... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amelia Opie | AO
accepted a proposal of marriage from a nobleman, Lord Herbert Stuart
; but she later broke off the engagement. Stuart, the second son of the fourth Earl (later the first Marquess) of Bute, was... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Louisa Stuart | It gave LLS
some trouble as a child that her grandmother was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
: I am sure I heartily hated her name. Whatever I wanted to learn, everybody was up in arms... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Lord Hertford (whose titles after his mother's death included Baron de Percy) was then a well-known rake whose lifestyle included daily drinking bouts with cronies until late at night. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
depicted... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Scott | Lady Barbara was a daughter of the rake and gambler George Montagu, Earl of Halifax
(and therefore a cousin of SS
's brother-in-law Edward Montagu and of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
's husband). On Halifax's... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Burnet | This marriage gave EB
a family of five stepchildren (bequeathed to her care by their own mother when she was close to death). They were three boys (all of whom went on to careers ranking... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Thicknesse | Philip Thicknesse was a somewhat shady character, one of the greatest self-publicists of the eighteenth century. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Philip Thicknesse |
Friends, Associates | Grisell Murray | At almost every stage of GM
's life, her family had the habit of spending part of their time at their London house, where she evidently moved in literary as well as fashionable circles. She... |
Friends, Associates | Judith Cowper Madan | The poems that Judith Cowper wrote as an unmarried young woman suggest that she moved easily both in court and in literary circles. She probably met the poet Alexander Pope
in Jervas
's studio. Pope... |
Friends, Associates | Alexander Pope | Pope's relationships with women, particularly women who wrote, tended to be complicated and turbulent. They have been ably studied by scholar Valerie Rumbold
. Contrary to rumour, he apparently liked and respected Anne Finch
... |
Friends, Associates | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | WMCN
's early and close relationship with her sister-in-law Mary, Countess of Traquair
, née Maxwell, suffered vicissitudes over the years through her poverty and her husband's shameless requests for money. In 1718 the Traquairs... |
Friends, Associates | William Congreve | As a young man Congreve formed a friendship with the older and distinguished Dryden
. He later belonged to the Whig Kit-Cat Club
, and counted most of its members among his friends, while remaining... |
Friends, Associates | Joseph Addison | JA
's time at Charterhouse began, and his time at Oxford confirmed, his friendship with Richard Steele
, with whom his name was to become inextricably linked as a result of their shared periodical ventures... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | The leading figures in the movement were Montagu herself (who spent freely in hospitality, and who was later dubbed the Queen of the Bluestockings or Queen of the Blues) and Carter
(the most intellectually... |
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